Healing Ray (reel A, cartridge #4)
Jorge Suárez-Quiñones Rivas, 3mins, 2022
Jorge's note: After reviewing my production, I have decided to share with you a special work that I hope you find appropriate. It is one of the cartridges that composes my film performance Healing ray. It is the central cartridge of the whole performance, and somehow the heart of it. It was the first 16mm I filmed for the project and, in fact, the first 16mm I've ever filmed. Personally, I see this cartridge as an honest wish for healing and connection through action and consciousness – so I've thought it could fit on this special occasion. Besides that, it has never been screened online, since Healing ray is a performance that I only do live. Healing ray works as a whole, but since the beginning of the production of the project, I have considered that somehow this cartridge has its own, independent life – so it's a pleasure for me to share it for this beautiful collective fundraising screening.
Jorge Suárez-Quiñones Rivas
Madrid-based visual artist and filmmaker. Professor at LAV Audiovisual Laboratory and TAI University School of Arts, Madrid.
Resident artists in WIELS Contemporary Art Center, Brussels (2021) and Artists in Aso, Kumamoto (2019).
Jorge Suárez-Quiñones Rivas experiments around the formal and conceptual implications of in-camera-editing regarding the experience of present as a space-time category potentially condensable in filmic matter, and therefore capable of being shared through projection devices specifically determined for each work.
Selected venues of screenings, film performances and audiovisual installations: S8, Wiels Contemporary Art Center, Tokyo Image Forum, Zumzeig, IFFR, Anthology Film Archives, Museum of Moving Images, FICUNAM, VideoEx, First Look, Fracto, Nomadica, Punto de Vista, Documenta Madrid, Filmadrid, CA2M Art Center, MUSAC Contemporary Art Museum, Riga Pasaules, Process Experimental Film Festival, Baltic Analog Lab, Ecrã, RAYO Expanded Visual Arts Festival, Spanish Pavilion at Venice Biennale of Architecture, SixtyEight Art Institute, First Look, MUBI's Notebook, Saloncito Madrid, Takechi Gallery.
