Marusela Granell: Lost between the waves
The rush, the speed of the city, the anonymity and sense of triviality of the quest for internal peace, the run from one subway platform to the next: this is the space in which Marusela Granell is working on her latest project. Her video installation, recently previewed at Broadway Gallery in a preliminary exhibition entitled "Looking at the Sea". It spanned the width of the sea, included the sounds of the water and for some 12 hours imaged the different bays and beaches of Tarifa Beach, Cadiz, Pedruscada Beach, Bilbao, Mallorca and Mundaka.
Most visitors were surprised by the simplicity of the picture, the recording of the momentum and the installation as a whole. That is until they suspended themselves into the projection, let it wash over them, so to speak, and found themselves emersed in its waves. When this moment came the viewer plunged into a new certainty.
The main installation of the " Looking at the sea" will be at the 3rd Biennale of Valencia in September of next year. It will appear at a variety of locations,
at points of main traffic, in stations and bus stops, which are used by many commuters on the way to the work. The exhibition will be installed on large monitors and adjusting walls. The citizens of Valencia, who are closely connected with the tides of the sea in culture and aesthetic, will lose themselves between the waves and find themselves beborn into a new consciousness, as will the city’s tourists and visitors.
From the dreamed sunrise, with which the day awakes, the sun will be reflected in all its splendid colors upon the breaking waves: The morning hours, when the sun presses itself to the highest point of the horizon; Noontime, as the strength of the sunbeams appears on the water and is fiery and threatening; The long hours of the afternoon, when the wavering shades becomes soothing; The romantic evening hours, which are reflected again, depending upon the weather, in the colorful splendor of the sun; and of course the sunset. These different and individual perceptions of simplicity, so often forgotten in the humdrum of today’s daily life will surface once again with the sun’s rays. These are the hopes of Marusela Granell.
