Premio Combat Prize

Un cuento de Santa Marìa
4-channel installation | HD | infinite loop | B&W | Uruguay | 2018

Concept
Un cuento de Santa María is a 4-channel installation created during the art residence AIR MadreSelva, Montevideo (Uruguay). The artwork is composed of four stories of people without hope inspired by the atmospheres of the novels written by the Uruguayan writer Juan Carlos Onetti. Onetti’s novels take places in the imaginary city of Santa María. The main characters of the artworks are forced into a nihilistic and dark loop. The aspect ratio of the 4 channels changes constantly and slowly until the images will become impossible to be watched by the viewer.
This artwork has been awarded the first prize of the International Competition for the Intermedia Artwork, Kraków (Poland).
Emanuele Dainotti (b. 1987, live and work between Milan and Antwerp) is an italian artist and filmmaker.
His videos and video installations have been shown and awarded in expositions and festivals such as Filmideo (USA); Louvre Museum (France); FIVAC (Cuba); Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil); XIV Mostra internazionale del video d’autore Avvistamenti (Italy); VAFT (Finland), Salón Internacional de la Luz (Colombia); Festival Miden (Greece); Fonlad (Portugal).
In 2018 he won the ”International Competition for the Intermedia Artwork” organized by the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, The Faculty of Intermedia and the Foundation for Development of Intermedia Artwork.
In 2019 a jury presided by Anish Kapoor awarded him with the ”Now You See Me award” at Louvre Museum in Paris.