Installation with HD, projected on glass and smoke machines, 12 min, 2025

Performance: Aérea Negrot.

In this installation, the famous Palacio Cristal in Madrid is reimagined as a ghost, with a skin made of glass. Aérea Negrot lends the palace her voice, reminding us how the building's colonial history haunts its non/human visitors even today. 
The Cristal Palace was built for the 1887 General Exposition of the Philippines to showcase the life and culture of the inhabitants of the Philippines, a Spanish colony from the 16th century until the late 19th century. The artists' recurring allies—mirroring stages and dense smoke—create a dialog between visibility and opacity to challenge the modern idea of excessive transparency as a violent technology of the gaze. 
What if the palace as ghost uses smoke to keep our gaze at a distance?
 
 

Director of Photography: Bernadette Paassen
Sound: Johanna Wienert
Costume: Sinpatron.  
Jewelry: House of Malakai
Make-up: Nuria de Lario
Programming: Sven Gareis, Telematique 
Sound Design: Rashad Becker
Color Grading: Waveline
Music: Aérea Negrot & Royal Dust.