La pastora de las cosas

Collaboration with Guadalupe Ruiz (Biel). Text by Michael Stauffer.
Video 4K, Stereo, Spanish with German subtitles, 16min50, 2022

We walk through the workspace and personal living space of Ruiz, her son, her partner and her cat in her video La Pastora de las Cosas (meaning: The Shepherdess of Objects) (2022). The camera follows the position of the sun through the rooms of the house, so that in each case there are similar lighting conditions. In this way, they create conditions similar to those in a photo studio, where the greatest control can be achieved through the production of images. Objects and inhabitants become actors in a photographic gaze that is simultaneously oriented to the daily routine and to the overriding temporality of the sun. The video poetically connects image and (living) space, directed gaze and everyday life.