Olmo Cuña

Focussing on the sculpture of the Olmec Head erected in the roundabout of the same name in Madrid’s Ensanche de Vallecas district, COLOSAL No. 8 is an audiovisual project that explores the connections between certain urban proposals, “roundaboutism”, the idea of “reflexive nostalgia” and “colossal” historical cinema. Another of the key dimensions of the project is the exploration of film languages and techniques such as the use of “applied colour” (the process of colouring the film by toning, tinting, hand-colouring or stencilling). 

Taking these ideas as a starting point, the COLOSAL No. 8 project envisages the making of a short film in the style of a lost “colossal” film or an anachronistic souvenir that speculates on concepts related to the passage of time, utopia, travel, nostalgia and the moving image itself.

BIO

Olmo Cuña holds a degree in Visual Arts from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Pontevedra and a master's degree in Artistic Production from the Polytechnic University of Valencia. He took part in the SOMA 2016 Educational Programme in Mexico City. His recent exhibitions include Vacational, 2022 at LABoral Art and Industrial Creation Centre, Gijon, Acting is Believing (Lo fingido verdadero), 2021 at the Lope de Vega House Museum, Madrid, Inestimable Chance (Inestimable Azar), 2021, 14th FEMSA Biennial, in Pátzcuaro, Mexico and Everything Happens As If] (Todo sucede como si), 2019, at Can Felipa, Barcelona. 

In his work, he draws from everyday experiences in different places around him, and is particularly interested in observing how the most generalised forms of approaching the territory work through images. In his practice, he connects the moving image with manual work processes as a way of stretching and contracting time.