SPIRAL FOREST (KINGDOM OF ALL THE ANIMALS AND ALL THE BEASTS IS MY NAME)

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  • Artist Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
  • Technical: Silent colour flm, 16mm Courtesy Daniel Steegmann Mangrané et l’IAC Rhône-Alpes
  • Duration: 11'
  • Year of production: 2013-2015
  • Country: Spain
Filmed from a fixed point, but operating in incessant rotations, Spiral Forest scans the forest according to serpentine trajectories, breaking with the usual spatial coordinates. No more horizon line nor eye level. No more left or right, top or bottom, front or back. Disorientation cancels out the implicit pact whereby the "eye" of the camera restores the comfort of human vision for the viewer. This off-center perception reveals a decentralized perspective. A non-human point of view; could be that of/the point of view of an animal, animist, or pantheist. and evoked by the subtitle of the work, citing a line by Stela do Patrocínio: "Kingdom of All the Animals and All the Beasts is my Name”. Housed in the heart of concentric rings, on a jointed stand specially designed with the help of engineers, the camera that filmed Spiral Forest rotates on itself in all directions, following a choreography written by the artist. This sophisticated support diverts the gimbal: an instrument, inherited from antiquity, that allowed the Portuguese to maintain a straight course towards Brazil, in the 15th century.

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Daniel Steegmann Mangrané

BORN IN 1977 IN BARCELONA (SPAIN) LIVES AND WORKS IN RIO DE JANEIRO (BRAZIL) He is fascinated by tropical forests, particularly the Amazonian forest. He is also nourished by biology and anthropology. The Catalan artist Daniel Steegmann Mangrané (born in 1977 in Barcelona, lives and works in Rio de Janeiro since 2004) mixes natural and cultural forms in his polymorphic work (drawing, sculpture, film, installations, etc.). He explores the entanglement of living things with their environment, experiencing space as a frame of sensitivity and relationships. He has presented his work in numerous personal and collective exhibitions around the world, notably at the 14th Biennale de Lyon, Mondes Flottants. In 2019, he presented the exhibition Not taking any form, neither flesh nor material at the Contemporary Art Institute, Villeurbanne, then the exhibition A Leaf-Shaped Animal Draws the Hand at Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan.