Videos –
When Images Begin to Move

These short films transform artworks, photographs, and performances into moving visual narratives. Accompanied by music, they continue the journey beyond the still image — click any image to watch on YouTube.

Video still: Bestiary — five animal sculptures by Matilde Cánepa González

Bestiary — Five Sculptures

It began as an intuitive movement, shapes arising like a calling. This bestiary represents a journey toward the roots I left behind — because sometimes we must grow far from home. It is an image for crossing from the physical world into the inner one.

Searching for my animal soul, three of these sculptures took shape in Caracas. Later, in Tenerife, a slower time let the rest settle. They are hybrid, quiet companions, lingering in silence — not monsters, but guides between day and night.

Video still: Hanami ritual performance with a sakura cloth, Berlin 2022, by Matilde Cánepa González

My Hanami — Ritual Performance, Berlin 2022

We reach the path of cherry trees, leaving behind what remains of the wall that once divided Germany. That time is gone. Under the pink blossoms, I listen to the birds and let the tensions of the present fall away.

What was once a wall of violence is now planted with sakura — a gift from Japan, offered in the language of flowers. Lying beneath the trees, watching the blue sky through pink branches, opens the heart. In that moment, my intention was born: to make art as a symbolic celebration.

Video still: Serenity of Blue Tones, abstract painting by Matilde Cánepa González

Serenity of Blue Tones

Blue unfolds here like a quiet breath across water and sky. I begin with monotype prints and let them transform through layers of acrylic, moving between chance and intention, between stillness and gesture. The cool shades open spaces for contemplation, while subtle warm tones surface like distant memories, bringing balance and light.

In the textures, traces, and transparent layers, a landscape appears that is felt rather than seen. I invite you to pause here, to enter a moment of calm and drift through the silent poetry of color.

Video still: Springtime 2020 artwork by Matilde Cánepa González

Spring 2020 — Drawings from the Lockdown

During the quiet months of lockdown, drawing became a daily ritual for me. From my studio window, I watched spring unfold slowly in the garden, blossom by blossom, while sketching the changing light and rhythms of nature.

These drawings are traces of a time marked by stillness, reflection, and attentive observation. They capture the dialogue between my inner world and the awakening season outside. This video presents details from my painting Spring 2020, a work born from those days of silence and renewal.

Video still: Cartografía Orgánica performance by Matilde Cánepa González

Cartografía Orgánica — Performance

In Cartografía Orgánica, my visual world meets the music Travesía por la paz by Damelis Castillo, and together we move through inner landscapes. Organic forms emerge like traces of memory, nature, and transformation.

The performance grows out of a ritual cleansing. Fire becomes a sign of transformation and renewal, and at its center I kindle a spiral-shaped form — a symbol of the inward journey and the continuous movement of life. Within the flames, letting go and new beginnings become one. Image, movement, and music merge into a quiet meditation on transformation, memory, and inner peace.

Video still: Circular wall sculpture by Matilde Cánepa González

Circular Wall Sculpture — Silences that Survive

Some silences do not disappear. They remain, settling into the wood, clay, and copper I work with, like memories that refuse to leave. Within these circles I gather fragments around a hidden center — traces of stories untold, signs half remembered, meanings held in quiet suspension.

With Silences that Survive I speak of what endures beyond words: the invisible layers of experience, time, and presence that keep resonating long after the voice has fallen silent.

This piece, Silencios que sobreviven I – Silences That Endure, is part of the Sculptures collection.

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