It is an invented word that denotes an inward-bound voyage of initiation and takes us into the allegory of an imagined world. If exodus is about endless wandering, being pursued and going from one place to another, a kind of mythic curse in search of a homeland, the term Ínodo / Inodus that Verónica Eguaras has created for the video’s title expresses the opposite: tense quietude, being tied to atavistic space whose tellurism involves awakening the fable of an inhospitable universe, secret and closed, where one finds all manner of astonishing phenomena. Life is this: A refuge of multiple surmounting in which powers of observation come awake, whose keenness lights up discovery by means of unusual signs.
The pixilation technique makes for a hesitant animation, with somewhat unexpected movements in fits and starts. Human beings and things conduct themselves like robots or puppets moved by secret threads.[...]
(Text for the exhibition catalogue "Círculo Virtuoso / Ínodo",
Sala Horno, Pamplona's Citadel. 2008)
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