Video: Asian fast food on the dark streets of Eindhoven. Video installations by Jorge Manes Rubio
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
An incredible number of points of sale of ready-made food is a real visiting card of Asian cities such as Bangkok, Delhi, Beijing, etc. However, this tradition is not so widespread in Europe. The artist decided to correct the situation. Jorge Manes Rubio, moreover, through art. Street video installations as a special genre of art have been gaining great popularity in recent years. Vivid examples of this kind of work can be seen in any more or less large city in the world - from Reykjavik to New York, from French Lyon to the Czech city of Zlin.
And the other day on the streets of Antwerp there was a whole series of street installations dedicated to the Asian street trade of ready-made food. Its author, Spanish artist Jorge Magnes Rubio, was inspired to create these works during his travels to Asian countries: India, China, Thailand and others. He drew attention to the fact that all these states are united by the tradition of selling food on the streets, and even at the latest. This gives them a special beauty and flavor, alien to European cities.
Here is Jorge Magnes Rubio and decided to transfer the Asian flavor to the streets of the Dutch city of Eindhoven. The fact is that in some areas of this settlement at night, street lighting acts very badly, if not even absent altogether. The artist decided to pay special attention to these corners of Eindhoven.
He installed a series of video installations on the dark streets of this city, projecting videos on the walls of buildings and fences about the life of street food outlets in Asia and South America.
“I've always been fascinated by how intense the nightlife is on the city streets in what we tend to think of as 'undeveloped' such as Morocco, Thailand and Indonesia, for example. So I decided to share this vision with people. For we have a lot to learn from these states. After all, even at night, when the streets in European cities become dangerous and hostile, they are bursting with life there”- this is how Jorge Manes Rubio himself explains the idea of his series of video installations.
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