THE GORGON’S DREAM A film by David Austen (2019)
EL SOMNI DE LA GORGONA
IX BIENNAL DE JAFRE
3-4 D’AGOST 2019
JAFRE 1743, Girona
David Austen’s film, The Gorgon’s Dream, will be shown at this years’ Jafre Biennale, in Girona, Catalonia.
This year, the Jafre Biennal has invited artists to investigate the relationship between words and the visual arts. The work includes installations, interventions and performances set within the village’s houses and streets.
David Austen | Ben Cain | Ana Čavić and Sally Morfill | DABÚ: Ricard Vallina and Carlos Alma | Aya Fukami | Anna López Luna & Mounir Gouri | La Infinita de l’Hospitalet: Victor Ruiz Colomer, Joe Highton and Duncan Gibbs | Jordi Mitja | Stephen Nelson | Gino Rubert | Aura Satz | Rebecca Scott
‘Projected in a basement dating from the twelfth century, David Austen’s 16mm film, The Gorgon’s Dream, revisits Greek mythology with the suggestive persistence of an image over time.’
El Somni de la Gorgona
En el film El Sueño de la Gorgona, la narrativa de David Austen recurre una vez más a los mitos clásicos.
Sus personajes solitarios son generalmente monstruos que nos provocan sentimientos piadosos, porque ellos existen en un mundo que le es doblemente cruel.
En la mitología griega las Gorgonas eran cada una de las tres hermanas, Stheno, Euryale y Medusa, con serpientes en la cabeza y el poder de convertir en piedra a quien las mirase. Medusa fue asesinada por Perseo.
In the film titled The Gorgon’s Dream, David Austen’s narrative once again turns to classical myths. His solitary characters are usually monsters that provoke benign feelings in us existing as they do, in a world which is doubly cruel.
In Greek Mythology, the 3 Gorgons were sisters; Stheno, Euryale and Medusa with snakes for hair and the power to convert anyone who looked at them to stone. Medusa was killed by Perseus.
Poster for El Somni de la Gorgona/The Gorgon’s Dream flyposted on the streets of Girona for IX Bienal de Jafre
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