MYTHOLOGIES IN TRANSIT, 2021
While borders were closed to everyone in the outbreak of Covid-19, closed are the only borders most subclass Africans have known. For this video made on an iPhone Will Fredo went to Melilla, Spain's last African territory. The video is split into 3 parts, the first one being about life in the EU's most fortified city that has a public statue of a fascist dictator and a public Muslim holiday.
In part 2 an avatar of the artist imagined as a creation by Indra, the Spanish company responsible for the surveillance of the borders around Melilla, looks at the complicated dynamics between Spain and Morocco, the ambivalence of technology, and the EU's security industrial complex.
And part 3 recontextualizes 2 bizarre surreal and myopic adverts of Indra, which is named after the Hindu king of gods.
Languages: Darija, Spanish, English subtitles
This video work is part of the Bundeskunstsammlung, Art Collection of the Federal German State
