In Miguel Casco’s “El desayuno” (The Breakfast) a group of young men and women gather naked to perform the sensual feast of eating. They meet in the darkness of the early morning and slowly shed shadow and clothing. Perhaps they are there to perform a Dionysian feast in which their bodies are integrated with food and nature as a puzzle that brings together actions and observable forms of behavior? Presented with his documentary film Desayunos, it begs the question: Does the video reproduce the paintings or the paintings the video? “I pay more attention to the synthetic edition because the search for an aestheticized documentary is more noticeable there, There is a post-production (Bourriaud would say) that strips the effect, that makes us understand that painting was born from video, that the technical destiny has been inverted, that the old ways of looking are now."

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