David Lamelas: SPACE/TIME/FICTION

David Lamelas was born in 1946 in Buenos Aires, where he studied Fine Arts. For the last 30 years he has divided his time between Los Angeles and Europe, spending long periods in London, Brussels and Paris. He now lives in Berlin, Paris and Los Angeles.

Lamelas is one of the most important artists of his generation. His work over the last three decades has encompassed installations, photographs and films, most of them 16 mm. In this exhibition, we present a selection of his extensive oeuvre.

Five series of photographs: The Violent Tapes of 1975 (1975), a series of ten photographs that present the action of a film that does not exist; Time as Activity, Brussels (1969), three photographs taken in the city of Brussels; People and Time (1969), ten small-format photographs; Time as Activity, Antwerp (1969), three photographs taken in the city of Antwerp; and Time as Activity, Düsseldorf (1969).

The films to be screened during the exhibition consist of Time as Activity, Düsseldorf (16 mm, 1969) and Time as Activity, Berlin (16 mm, 1998), Un estudio de las relaciones entre el espacio interior y exterior (1969), La gente del desierto (1974, originally 16-mm film transferred onto DVD), The Light at the Edge of a Nightmare (DVD, 2003), L.A. Friends (1976, a projection of slides and drawings on the wall) and Rock Star (apropiación de un personaje) (photograph, 1974).

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David Lamelas: SPACE/TIME/FICTION