Directed by Mabel Palacin
Executive Producers Vanessa V and Hiuwai Chu

Through a picture that becomes multiple, It deals with issues such as the city, characterized by the simultaneity of perceptions and events, and the image, the point of view and the position of the viewer. The creation of an image reproduced virally is proposed, multiplied and jumping from one format to another, transforming to exist. The project shows this process of transformation: the tension that is created in an image that appears suspended between several media at the same time.
180° takes its name from what in cinema is known as the 180 degree rule, whereby the camera, taking shots and counter shots, should not jump off the imaginary line of 180 degrees, as this would create confusion about the spatial position of the characters. The camera must choose one side of the “axis of action” so that the characters remain on the same side (left or right) of the screen and the viewer does not get spatially disoriented.

180º is an installation in which an image is reproduced and translated into different mediums that carry different relations between the viewer and the image. The place of the image is multiple and formed by the articulated set of the ways in which the image is presented. The diversity of these ways leads the image to be something else, while the presence of multiple views projects the unknown on the image causing the suspension of a single and final sense.

180º is a full shot, the picture of city street. According to the digital logic, the image is constructed from many takes that break the shot so that the image can allow enough definition even in the smallest details. The takes are then linked through its inner digital core so coherence is maintained in the photography, displayed as a single image. The full shot allows us to understand certain structure, relate things from a distance. At the same time, and because of the enormous scale of the image, it is possible to expand it in the smallest details, so that the structure, perceived as a whole, is subverted or transformed into the specific details that form it. The image then passes through different mutations: a series of videos, 110 smaller photos, which appear as a book edited for the occasion, portions of the initial image that explodes and is fragmented into some parts, which inevitably form new stories, as each fragment, isolated, creates new meanings, working as a microstories.

180° represented Catalonia and the Balearic Islands in the 54th Venice Biennale