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From the 8th of September to the 24th of November, Manifesta 15 Barcelona Metropolitana presented a comprehensive programme featuring installations, archives and performances by the participants of the edition.
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No shelter from the storm
- TypeInstallation
- ParticipantAnca Benera & Arnold Estefan
- VenueCasa Gomis
No shelter from the storm, 2015 © Anca Benera & Arnold Estefan. Photo © Manifesta 15 Barcelona Metropolitana / Helena Roig
Anca Benera and Arnold Estefan’s film was shot in one of the last primeval forests in Europe, located in the Carpathian Mountains of Romania, the artists’ home country. The forest is currently being destroyed by multinational corporations involved in extractive industries. The region is not only important for ecological reasons, but also politically, historically and militarily significant. In their film, two solitary figures are seen trekking in a mountainous terrain while whistling Where Have All the Flowers Gone? – an anti-war song from the United States, which was written by singer and composer Pete Seeger in 1955. Whistled against the stark backdrop of a devastated landscape, the famous melody becomes an appeal against the global exploitation of natural resources and environmental destruction in the ongoing and growing state of violence against nature. If there was a time when forests provided shelter for humans, they are nowadays vulnerable to devastation at the hands of humans, pushed to the brink of extinction.
2015
HD video, black and white, sound, 5’42”
Courtesy of the artists and n.b.k Video-Forum Berlin
Supported by Austrian Cultural Forum in Madrid
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