Ulisses, 2013- Elsa Bruxelas
Ulisses starts from the relationship of seduction and love between two gloved hands to represent the relationship and influence of French culture in Lisbon life of the last century. This video creates an artifice in which the hands become autonomous acquiring their own identity, inspired by the refinement of the Luvaria Ulisses, on a background painted with the same pattern as the cushion where people put their elbow to try the gloves.
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In a chance encounter the game of seduction develops accompanied by a dialogue presented in subtitles that accentuate this artificiality. The images move inside a box that we observe like voyeurs of intimacy or observers of objects in a museum showcase, where through their presence we seek a meaning and a relationship with the world.
Elsa Bruxelas
Ulisses
Video installation
Hand 1 - Fernando Crespo
Hand 2 - Joana Sousa
Directed and edited by Elsa Bruxelas
Wood, glass and video
2013