Iury Lech
IURY LECH
(Espanha - Spain)
IURY LECH, is a transdisciplinary digital artist descended from the Ukrainian diaspora and settled in Spain from a very young age, that has developed his creativity working within the realm of video-art, music and literature, being part of the few pioneers in the Spanish electronic and digital audio-visual scene that in the 80's/90's began to develop visual-aural performances and video art works.
On the other side of his creative facet, we can point out his task as producer and director from 2007 of the weekly television program Transfera, specialized in the broadcast of audiovisual art, as well as the founding, direction, and programming of MADATAC, the INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY AUDIO-VISUAL & NEW MEDIA ART, and independent project initiated in 2009 and ongoing through the 12th edition in 2023.
His open and unclassifiable style permeates the tired avant-garde concept by means of textures that brings alive hypnotic visual and sonic atmospheres and an alternative way to conceive New Media Art experimentalism. Among his last numerous productions on these disciplines, it should be noted the Kinetic Pictures for the video art masterpiece Dye a V(east) and Domesticated Domestic Demons a 7-channel video-installation; the sound sculpture cd work Instorments; or his books "The encapsulated image: Video Art as a spiral" (2009), an essay on the practice and contemporaneity of the Video Art discipline and his anthology & translation into Spanish on Ukrainian XX Century poetry "Una iconografía del alma. Poesía ucraniana del siglo XX" (Litoral/Unesco,1993)
His video-art works, for which he also composed the soundtracks, as well as his live performances, involves a multimedia stage set which, in addition to different image treatments, makes the most of interactive and sensorial immersion technology.
He showed his video-art pieces and played live AV concerts at many venues and events such as Ars Electrónica, Art Futura, ISEA, SONAR, Video Festival Videoformes, Festival of New Musics of Madrid and Sevilla; the experimental cycle LEM in Barcelona; the Knitting Factory in New York; the Pop Komm Festival, the Festival Experimenta in Madrid, Festival Osmosis in Taiwán, ART BEIJING, DAFT Festival in Taipei_Taiwan, JMAF in Tokyo or Hong-Gah Museum Taipei, MURMUR Madrid Festival, ARTEFACT CHERNOBIL 33 Festival in Kiev, Ukraine. On May 2013 the 2nd Izmir Art Biennial in Turkey invited Iury Lech as an official artist, where the jury awarded him with the 1st prize for the Best Video Art installation. During 2013 he has been invited as a jury member of Videoformes Fest (Clermont-Ferrand, France), MAshRome Film Fest (Rome, Italy) and EXIS Experimental Festival (Seoul, South Korea), among many others.
LABYRINTHOS MADEIRENSIS - 7'30'' 2024 | Iury Lech (Espanha - Spain)
Technical sheets
Duration: 7' 30"
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Resolution: 4K UHD 3840×2160
Color
Credits
Artistic Direction: Iury Lech
Producer | Visuals, Music and Sound: Iury Lech
Production Support: Experimental audiovisual project made with the Artist Residency Grant Award | TRANSGRESSION art + technology PR 2 | Project (APCA - ATEF - Funchal Experimental Theatre Association; Santo António Cinema-Theatre; DG ARTES – Directorate-General for the Arts and the Portuguese Republic – Culture).
Country of Production: Spain and Portugal
Year of Completion: 2024
Synopsis:
The audiovisual work "Synthropia Floresta"starts with a stranger entering an old theatre full of forgotten stories and extraordinary legends to create an original work of art about something he does not know, but which he perceives as unique and enigmatic, about the traditional and immaterial heritage of the culture of the island of Madeira. Without saying a word, he falls under a sudden spell that plunges him into a dreamlike journey, where he witnesses the volcanic and primordial formation of the island, the recurring sounds of the sea, the wind, the bells and other guttural sounds, the rituals of a tree-dwelling fantasy unfolding insistently before his contemplation.
Among the characters that will populate this audiovisual journey, there will be women expelling fascinating creatures, demons and evil spirits through their mouths by means of Catholic and Santeria rites, others who practice the laying on of hands, or island embroiderers who weave a geometric island, designing patterns and colours with the ocean as a source of imagistic inspiration, without ever losing sight of the powerful fable that the island was created from a tear shed by the virgin that was transformed into a pearl..
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