Isabel Muñoz uses Epson technology to experiment with moving images

In this video interview, made by Digital AV Magazine on the occasion of the exhibition “The anthropology of feelings”, The artist explains how Epson EB-L1755U projectors have allowed her to go beyond the limits of the still image and take her work to the world of video.

Isabel Muñoz, National Photography Award 2016 and ambassador of Epson, exposes in The Principal of Tabacalera (Madrid) ‘The anthropology of feelings‘, a sample where it is exhibited, until next time 17 June, a selection of 97 photographs of its production and six audiovisual installations.

With this reason, Digital AV Magazine has conducted a video interview in which the artist explains what she wanted to communicate and transmit with this exhibition and how Epson technology has allowed her to go beyond the limits of the still image and take her work to the world of video..

The exhibition, curated by François Cheval and Audrey Hoareau, co-founders of The Red Eye, revolves around the obsessive and heterogeneous representation of the human body, from the very origins of humanity, spirituality, the madness, the limits and extremes of the body, the social dimension of the corporeal and, finally, sexuality and desire.

This is a theme that is very present in all of Isabel Muñoz's artistic production.. Since he began his work in the world of photography, She has always been fascinated by the study of the origins of humanity., the limits and extremes of the body, as well as the sexuality and spirituality of different groups and cultures around the planet..

It is an exhibition where art and technology merge and in which Epson has had an important contribution as a technological partner..

Las 97 photographs that make up ‘The anthropology of feelings‘ They have been printed using technology from the Japanese brand, using for this the equipment of the SureColor range. Its printing solutions have allowed us to give a 'last brushstroke' to each photo to turn them into authentic works of art..

For your part, audiovisual facilities offer visitors a complete experience. Among these stands out an imposing audiovisual installation that welcomes attendees at the entrance to the venue.. For deployment, Epson's high-brightness 3LCD professional projection technology has been used.

Experimentation and learning

This artist is world-renowned for her portraits and bodies taken to the limit., that are reflected in photographs that use platinotype techniques. Isabel Muñoz always goes one step further in her search for experimentation and learning and now she has taken her work to the world of video.

The author of this exhibition explains in this video interview conducted for Digital AV Magazine how technology has influenced her work and how it has helped her “to unleash a powerful creative explosion.”. “When you are going to tell a story, the video gives you something of reality that goes beyond what you are going to show in a still image.”.

In his photographs he has always sought the highest image quality and this is what he wanted to find in this approach to the world of video.. Epson EB-L1755U projectors have given it to you.

“For me this technology has been a discovery.. I am always looking for the focus, the detail, being able to make larger images. The problem with projection, and has always had it, It is very difficult to achieve that quality. “I have been fortunate to have these projectors to achieve the quality that I am looking for in the still image”.

Epson EB-L1755U projectors have allowed you to experiment with the moving image to show everything that can be expressed with dance. “The body and dance are excuses to talk about ourselves. “They are topics that I am passionate about and are ways of talking about human beings.”.

With a laser light source and 15.000 lumens, The EB-L1755U offers high contrast, even under the overhead light that enters the room through a large skylight. In the room, four totem screens more than three meters high have been installed that 'hypnotize' with the essence of the butoh dance..