LIFE or “burning shadows”
Technical details
Original title LIFE o “quemando sombras”
Author Rrose Present
Edition 6 limited editions + 2 H.C.
Production Rrose Present
Running time 00:03:19
Country Spain
Year of producction 2010/2013
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Fire: a transformer of matter and alchemy for the soul, performed in a ritual to "give light" to our shadow.

It is a reinterpretation of collective ritual the bonfires of San Juan. The population burn old objects to clean the past and renewed for the start of the summer solstice.

Hand lights, a flame that gives "life" to the "shadow" of a silhouette that grows, moves, dances with the fire until it is consumed, and dies.

Metaphor of the three states of life, born, grow and die. Or a ritual act giving light on our shadow. That shadow is a psychic element that represents our worst dreams, monsters or demons hiding under the cloak of fear in the darkness of the unconscious.

Shadow illuminated by a fire  "transformer", to exorcise our fears, like our worst enemies.