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Demasiado polvo - 2006 
Valentina Maggi

Demasiado polvo - 2006 
Valentina Maggi

Demasiado polvo - 2006
5'48'' DVD Courtesy dell'artista

The video was created for a group exhibition, which took place in June 2006 at Puerto Sagunto, a little village in the province of Valencia in Spain. The exhibition is part of a series of multi- disciplinary meetings and events which have been taking place for years now, as a form of protest against the destruction of the “The Gerencia garden city”, a place built by powerful industrialists around the twenties at Puerto Sagunto. The Gerencia, as it is famously known, is a small city surrounded by high walls, situated in Sagunto. Through filming, direction and editing and clothing of the protagonist, I have created in the video, a fairytale and paradoxical atmosphere, to accompany the viewer between the soft lights of the dusty house.In the video, a woman (me) walks into a house, walking among wallpaper torn, ruined walls, old newspapers and abandoned objects, dusting and cleaning the furniture with a spray, small pieces of broken glass sticking to the windows .The video is accompanied by “(In My) Solitude”, song of 1934, written by Duke Ellington, Eddie de Lange e Irving Mills, in a version by Billie Holiday. I chose this sound piece because I wanted a song which dates back to the period in which the Gerencia villas were inhabited.