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o Artist: Julia Zurilla

o Title: Silent Miami

o Year: 2024

o Medium: Experimental video. Thin card USB flash drive with all the artwork identification printed.
Edition of 3 copies. 1/3

Suggested display support: video projection.

o Dimensions: Variable / Duration: 8 min 38 sec.

o Description: As a multidisciplinary artist, I intertwine images from various sources to challenge notions of belonging, memory, and the environment. While my focus lies in video, installations, and photography, I also integrate writing and textile media into my practice. My recent endeavors explore the inherent links between our shared memory and pressing environmental issues. Silent Miami is an experimental video featuring circular projection that emulates the view through a telescope. It presents a silent black-and-white film, punctuated by flashes of a nuclear explosion in ultramarine blue. I utilize non-professional documentary footage from 1926 Miami vacations on 8 mm film, along with video footage from 1946 depicting atomic bomb testing at Bikini Atoll. This piece is part of my latest solo exhibition "Vacational Aesthetics of the Environment", which aims to explore the blending of nostalgic past and tangible present, always from a telescopic and/or binocular vision perspective.

o Artist website or Instagram: www.juliazurilla.com | @juliazurillaj