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Katharsis
by Miguel Azuaga
2019, 24′
Presented at VISIO. Moving Images After Post-Internet (2019)
Courtesy of the artist
Katharsis is a three-channel installation that examines the paradigms of representation, intersectionality and social construct. In collaboration with people from the queer and the academic communities in Berlin, the work pursues the deconstruction of a video-documented interview that the artist conducted near the European border in north Morocco with Olivia John, a 29-year-old journalist from Nigeria. Through a re-enactment of the event, the participants blur the boundaries between the questioner, the observer, the performer and
the gender lines. The work focuses on devaluating Miguel’s role as interviewer, engaging the participants in a critical conversation about his privileges.
Miguel Azuaga holds a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Malaga and a Master Degree in Art in Context from the Universität der Künste Berlin, where he mainly focused on artistic practices within social groups and in the context of scientific and media image production. His works investigate the memory and psychology of trauma through the retelling of biographical events. Azuaga explores the condition of self in a postcolonial discourse thoroughly influenced by the mainstream and the popular culture. His work has recently focused on the paradigms of representation, intersectionality and social construct by putting the concept of “Europeanness” into question. His work has been shown at Goethe Institut Barcelona, the Universität der Künste Berlin, Loop Videoart Festival in Barcelona, Bilbao Exhibition Center, and the Museo de Arte de la Diputación de Malaga.