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Nuria Manso.\u00a0 Craziness, laughter and death \u00a02020.<\/strong><\/p>\n Iconography is a science developed during the first half of the XX century by Edwin Panofsky who considers the visual image to be a carrier of formal interests and intrinsic contents.\u00a0 Therefore we must think of a work of art with a living value full of meaning and carrier of cultural ideas.\u00a0 These principles can be fully extrapolated to the videographic productions of the artist N\u00faria Manso (Barcelona 1960).<\/p>\n The basis of her current artistic work are processed images which become a way of thinking.\u00a0 Previously the artist had created the possibility of linked images where, as well as the value and significance of each image on its own, it was necessary to look for a global meaning.\u00a0 We could place N\u00faria Manso\u00b4s present artistic period as a producer of creation videos following a complex and productive videographic period called Dokuart (exhibited at the Centre d\u00b4Art Santa M\u00f3nica, Barcelona 2011).<\/p>\n Since then, her videographic works, simpler and less grandiose, haven taken place year after year.\u00a0 The foundation of her work is conceptually similar to other previous photographic works done by her, treating multiple images simultaneously.\u00a0 Presently her videos are animated images that take place one after another.\u00a0 They are graphic documents of previous artistic installations or photographic sequences of past experiences during vital moments of the artist\u00b4s life.<\/p>\n N\u00faria Manso will show three of her latest videos at the Loop Festival 2020 (she has participated in previous editions through the RED3 and H20 galleries in Barcelona).\u00a0 The first of these three videos \u00a8I si son coses nostres\u00a8<\/strong> (And if it is something of ours ) 2019 broaches the subject of madness drawing from personal experiences and past memories, which she combines with a sequence of brain scans.\u00a0 Personal life and artistic reality mix in a chaotic sequence that takes us deep into the false realities of those states that are close to delirium.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n