Mariana Castillo Deball Talk & Film Screening

To mark the end of her exhibition, What we caught we threw away, what we didn't catch we kept, at CCA, Mariana Castillo Deball presents rare films by Scottish artist Eduardo Paolozzi and Argentinian artist and writer Leandro Katz. Relating to ethnography and archeology, both films explore the relationship between the modern world and archeological objects. Paolozzi’s film links directly to the papier-mâché technique used by Alfred Maudsley and Mariana herself, while Katz’s documentary provides an insight into the rapid economic development of much of Latin America and its connection to historical sites and collective memory.

History of Nothing by Eduardo Paolozzi, 1963, 16mm, 12 minutes
Made in 1963, this film provides a rare insight into Paolozzi’s influence on British pop art from 1952 onwards. The animated collage of cut-up images shows a deeply fragmented way of working with both film and sculpture. Fascinated by the modern world and an increasing mechanised environment, Paolozzi creates a visual language offering a curious history that holds ‘nothing’. In fact, in revisiting Paolozzi’s practice in an almost archeological way, this animation shows the rich visual world Paolozzi felt part of.
Courtesy of Paulozzi Foundation, London.

Paradox by Leandro Katz, 2001, DVD, 30 minutes
Leandro Katz’s documentary brings together two seemingly separate worlds. The film begins at the Maya archeological site of Quiriguá in Guatemala, which was visited by Alfred Maudsley and which also inspired Mariana Castillo Deball. It charts the development of the Latin American fruit industry, and depicts the clash between modernisation and the residual ‘histories’ of Quiriguá, which houses families, relics and objects of archeological value.
Courtesy of Leandro Katz

This free event is non-ticketed.