Narrow-Slot/Sueño paradójico, 2000

Mexico City artist Silva Gruner produced a video project for inSITE2000 titled Narrow-Slot/Sueño paradójico, which took her own psychological landscape as its subject. Gruner carried out a series of psychoanalytic sessions while lying on the back seat of a car as two therapists, one American and one Mexican, took turns driving the artist across the border. Each session was recorded using a pinhole camera installed inside the car, resulting in two videos, one with each therapist, respectively, in English and in Spanish. The two videos were edited to contain only the questions that were asked by the therapists during the sessions and subsequently shown as projections, one video opposite the other in a closed room.

Curators: Susan Buck-Morss, Ivo Mesquita, Osvaldo Sánchez, and Sally Yard
Venue: Downtown San Diego in(fo)Site

Rafael Ortega
Matthew Zetumer
Lizette Kingwergs