Clear and present is not simply a video, but a complex project made of photographs, sounds, video and installed objects. Yet, unlikely analogous work, each one of its components could be shown on its own and still retain, at least partly, its original meaning and its evocative potential.
However, all these elements are synthesized in the video installation, that remains Marcella Vanzo’s privileged medium. The image shown is simply that of the head of a girl, little by little we discover it, starting at the nape of her neck, her hair, the screen almost black. The camera stands still whilst the girl’s face slowly rotates until we see her eyes, shut because of the weight of several small stones attached to her eyelashes.
It is the sound that surprises us before seeing this image, shocking and symbolic at the same time.