Koch’s photomontages that recombine images of facade tiles are a good example of the way in which the problems are faced: the animation Olinda-Celeste (a collaboration with the Peruvian artist Gabriel Acevedo Velarde), based on pictures of tiles found at the historical city of Olinda, simulates a camera moving along them in an apparently predictable way. But the alleged camera’s movements don’t converge on a logical axis. On the contrary, we perceive the surface as discontinuous: backtracking, for instance, takes us not back to what we had just seen but to an unfamiliar pattern. And the patterns that were visible in a certain area a moment ago reappear in unlikely places. We find ourselves frustrated for the lack of a narrative sense in the animation.

— from BOMB’s Artists on Artists feature on Lucia Koch by Mário Ramiro, Winter 2008, issue #102

 

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Olinda-Celeste — a video by Lucia Koch
(with Gabriel Acevedo Velarde)

 

olinda celeste

Olinda-Celeste, 2005, animation, 5 minutes 26 seconds.
Courtesy of the artist.

 

 

 

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