Yo Soy No Soy
Yo Soy No Soy
Collective project of “Soyun”
Participating artists: Brooke Borg, Cecilia Lerma, Karin de Almeida Frutig, Laura Gamboa, Mahdie Motamedi, Silvia Rodríguez, Zeyno Pekunlu.
Soyun is a group of artists from different nationalities and disciplines such as fine arts, design, scenic arts, art history and visual communication that live and produce in Barcelona.
The Video “I am I am not” is made with stop motion technique in which every artist of the collective appears like paperdolls with a neutral underwear. A hand that represents the cliché ideas about their national identities appears and picks one of them, then pops up an option menu of stereotypical dresses and objects of their countries: Brazilian-a carnival costume, Mexican- a mariachi costume, American- obese, Persian- burka, Turkish- belly dancer and Venezuelan- Miss Beauty. During the video, the hand keeps pasting the stereotypical dresses and objects on the dolls but every time an alarm is heard and the dolls protest.
