COLLAGES, 2008-2011
Collage with found publications
32 x 42 cm
We decided to look at her work, 'Fall on us, and hide us.' This features a large derelict room. In the foreground there are scattered bones then in the middle ground there is a carcass elevated by a sort of brightly coloured altar. Judging by her photography of from, 'Fall on us, and hide us,' this carcass is that of a goat.
FALL ON US, AND HIDE US, 2011
Colour photograph
145 x 112 cm.
FALL ON US, AND HIDE US #2, 2011
Colour photograph
145 x 112 cm.
FALL ON US, AND HIDE US #3, 2011
Colour photograph
70 x 75 cm
The video piece features the projection of light across the entire scene to the rhythm of the music playing. The viewer becomes transfixed on it blinded by the light and taken in by the music. I think the reason why the piece is called, 'Fall on us,and hide us,' because of how the light falls on the scene revealing this mass grave of animal bones but when the light is gone it is hidden.
FALL ON US, AND HIDE US, 2011 (excerpt)
Video installation/vertical projection
HD, colour, sound, 16:9, 8min.
Music by Melissa Bugarella
Alfaro's work is often about the unseen as she states, “I work about the hidden and the unexpected. We live our lives governed by rules created in order to control chaos and vulnerability, but I am interested in the facts we try to hide or repress, in the differences between the private and the public, in the visibility of our everyday life hypocrisy.”
