FILM

While images are projected in 16mm, Elena Duque paints over the screen in real time. Four simple lessons on art for beginners, each an ode to canonical genres of painting. In For Sonia, Duque evokes Sonia Delaunay’s bold geometric shapes. Still Life instructs the audience on how to paint those commonplace, inanimate objects. In Action Painting, Duque takes inspiration from Joan Mitchell’s abstract expressionism. During the final lesson, Seated Portrait, faces are rendered into cubist paintings.