13/04/2026
REXVII / 2024
Henry Coleman (UK)
[English below]
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Flooded Doubled/Las Familias: Cuando el nivel de las aguas ascendió en Epecuén, también lo hizo en el Cine Gran Sud de Carhué. Las primeras filas de la platea quedaron por debajo del nivel freático invisible; el agua las tragó mientras se filtraba lentamente de forma ascendente a través de las alfombras del recinto. Un espacio semisumergido donde la proyección cinematográfica persistió, generando una memoria insólita de los blockbusters de Hollywood: imágenes duplicadas e invertidas sobre el espejo del agua estancada y omnipresente. Flooded Doubled es una pieza y un proyecto que propone la reapertura del cine tras más de 40 años, otorgándole un nuevo nombre extraído de un hotel desaparecido y proyectando Flooded MacDonalds de Superflex sobre un espejo duplicador para los habitantes de Epecuén y Carhué.
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"Flooded Doubled / Las Familias”: When the flood waters rose in Epecuén they also rose in Carhué’s Cinema Gran Sud. The front rows of seats lay below the invisible water table and so were swallowed beneath waters that seeped slowly upwards through carpeted cinema floors. A displaced and corralled avatar for the neighbouring floods the waters filled the sunken void of the cinema, mingling with the ongoing cultural consumption of the town. Films continued to roll in this strange half-submerged space for a while, with the town producing distinct and strange memories of Hollywood blockbusters viewed from the back of the theatre, doubled and inverted in the unstable and stagnant water of the twinned, determinedly present, flood. Flooded Doubled is a piece and a project that proposes re-opening the cinema after 40+ ye
Crédits
Flooded McDonald's is produced by Propeller Group (Ho Chi Minh City) in association with Matching Studio (Bangkok) and co-produced by South London Gallery (London), Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, (Humlebæk, Denmark) and Oriel Mostyn Gallery (Llandudno, Wales) with support from the Danish Film Institute.
Flooded McDonald's was first exhibited at South London Gallery in 2009. The exhibition is supported by the Danish Arts Council's Committee for International Visual Art.
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