Inner Outer Space

(Laida Lertxundi, Spain, 2021)

Cinema has the power to confuse all the presentational categories offered by museums and galleries. Static, pictorial collage becomes montage in time; what would be a large work of installation art can be reduced to a small, childlike maquette.

Laida Lertxundi is deeply aware of this unceasing, transformative potential. In the 16 minutes of Inner Outer Space, shot in Basque country, she assembles representations of the sea – drawn, photographed, framed, projected, juxtaposed, heard as sound – and combines them with fragments of a strange, inconclusive dialogue between women.

Special note: the credits of this film appear halfway through – so, don’t bolt for the door (or hit your remote) and miss the rest of it.

© Adrian Martin October 2021