Inés Cámara Leret
This story is about the future, but not a distant future, nor an imaginary future. It’s about an immediate future charged with the present. It’s a future turned into a verb, it’s a future that does.
They are the heirs, but also the mothers themselves. Unique, yet multiple. Rooted and cloned.
Wild horses roam the mountainside; a bell tolls in the distance. We see some branches draped over the doors. Let evil be banished, let good flourish. Fruit, branches and bark are held together by a white string. Protect us from our breath. Each one weighs 100 grams. In the sea and in the sky and on the earth.
A cardiorespiratory arrest.
Although you are the tree of death, we will bring you back to life if you die. Simsalabim.
A snap of the fingers, and the audience begins to applaud.
BIO
Inés Cámara Leret (Madrid, 1990) holds degrees from the Complutense University of Madrid and from the Akademie výtvarných umění of Prague (2008-2013), as well as a master's degree in Fine Arts from the University of the Arts London (2013-2015). Her work is characterised by slow, open and situated research, typically materialised as sculptural installations and audiovisuals. She has participated in residencies at MUSAC, King’s College London, Las Cigarreras, the Tabakalera International Centre for Contemporary Culture and the Van Gogh House London, among others. Her work has been exhibited in Spain and abroad in public spaces such as city squares and mountains, as well as in galleries, museums and festivals.
One of the recipients of the 2024 Quarterly Residencies for Projects on the Environment for visual artists at Matadero Madrid’s Centre for Artists in Residence.