La Pantalla Mutante (The Mutant Screen)
La Pantalla Mutante (The Mutant Screen)
La Pantalla Mutante is based examining the underlying image in cinematographic works produced in Spain in the 1970s and early 1980s. Through the collage of images taken from films set in the late Francoist period and Spain’s subsequent transition to democracy, the work explores the representational transformation of freedom and the functioning of censorship in this context. Through the queer manipulation and resignification of a cinematographic imaginary often constructed under a normative gaze, the work seeks to capture the underlying elements that escape from the images.
Pol Merchan
Pol Merchan is an artist, filmmaker and curator of the Xposed Queer Film Festival in Berlin. He graduated in Fine Arts from the Universitat de Barcelona and completed a Master in Art in Context at the Universität der Künste in Berlin. His work has been exhibited internationally at art institutions and film festivals such as the Centre d’Art La Panera, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Videonale, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, Dok Leipzig, Ann Arbor Film Festival and Anthology Film Archives. His work is part of the collections of the Fundació Leandre Cristòfol and the Museu d’Art Modern i Contemporani in Lleida.