Juan | Trust Interval

The closing of the eighth edition of FLORA is a live session of expanded cinema and music by the multidisciplinary Cordoban artist Juan (Juan López López). For 45 minutes, the audience participates in a specially created performance in which Juan mixes music and images live, mostly unseen before, with the landscape of Córdoba province as the only protagonist.

This vast territory, stretching from Los Pedroches to the Subbética and traversed by the Guadalquivir Valley, is presented as an anatomical body observed from a distance. A natural landscape shaped by human activity, sometimes visually sublime and abstract, at other times strange and remote.

This live video project seeks to redefine the concept of landscape without relinquishing a critical view of power relations and the economy of a globalised world, starting from the singular territory of Córdoba province: water scarcity, desertification, and resource exploitation, inviting reflection and imagining possible futures. Fields, mountain ranges, lush landscapes, wetlands, and lands beyond the human eye appear in almost static frames at different times of the year, placing the audience in a new visual scenario, like a painting.

This work is based on material recorded for his film essay Edén, featuring actress Helena Kaittani and the artist Niño de Elche.

The sound design interacts with the images through a series of previously unheard musical compositions, ranging from ambient and experimental music to emotional techno, incorporating tension and drama to transport the audience into a new materiality of landscape.