centro cultural tina modotti Monika Bravo (Colombia)
La última noche de las Torres Gemelas
La noche del 10 de septiembre 2001 la artista Mónika Bravo grabó el WTC azotado por una tormenta. Faltaban pocas horas para la horrible tragedia que las borraría de la faz de la tierra para siempre.
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On Sept. 10, 2001, I filmed the views from my LMCC studio at the World Trade Center’s Tower one 92nd floor, originally intended for A_Maze, a piece I was working on at the time, The film depicts a thunderstorm from what would be the last day the towers stood. That evening I left close to midnight taking with me the mini DV tape along with some inkjet prints. The following morning during the tragic events, fellow artist Michael Richards lost his life. Seven hours of time-lapse footage have been condensed to a 5-minute document in Richards’ memory. I have shown this video in over 200 venues all over the world and it serves a document of the day before 9/11. Monika Bravo
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Monika Bravo nace en 1964 en Bogotá. Vive y trabaja en Nueva York.
Monika Bravo usa la idea de la percepción para preguntarse por la construcción mental que es el mundo en el cual vivimos. Utiliza su práctica artística como herramienta para descifrar su relación con el espacio emocional. A partir de imágenes, sonido, materiales industriales y tecnología crea situaciones – objetos y ambientes – que aluden a paisajes reconocibles y examinan la noción de espacio/tiempo como una medida de la realidad.
Monika Bravo (born 1964) is a multi-disciplinary artist born in Bogotá, Colombia, who lives and works in New York City, New York.
Her work has been internationally exhibited, including at Stenersen Museum in Oslo; Seoul’s International Biennial of New Media Art; Bank of the Republic in Bogotá; New Museum and El Museo del Barrio in New York City and Site Santa Fe.
Her work has received acclaim including a 1999 New York Times review which called her piece Synchronicity (from a group exhibition at El Museo del Barrio) a “standout…small, beautifully blurry video images of boats plowing through New York Harbor…”
In 1982, Bravo left Bogotá, moving to Rome to study fashion design, which she continued in Paris at Esmod, before traveling to London to study photography. In 1994 she moved to New York where she is currently still based … keep on reading Wikipedia
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photo: The Twin Towers on the night of September 10, 2001. (Image courtesy of Ryan Fournier.)
