Oscar is a Colombian artist working with many media such as photography and print making as well as installations and moving image. This exhibition Biografías at the Cornerhouse is a collection of moving image that take the form of distorted self portraits. He works a lot with the ideas of memory and human loss both of which you easily get a sense of here.
The darkened room immediate draws your attention to the lit squares on the floor. As you watch these disappear into a makeshift drain the eery sense of disintegration is coupled with the audio of water trickling down a drain, this really seems to emphasize the despair in the faces of the portraits. The technique used in this method in an interesting one using a combination of screen printing and coal dusting on water to help bleed the images away.
The portrait of Oscar himself is probably one of my favorites to date. It consist of a short film in which you see his face reflected in water cupped in his hand. Throughout the video the water is constantly in motion twisting and distorting the reflection and as it plays on and the water trickles through the fingers his face becomes more and more distorted and confined.
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