Barcelona born artist Gisella Fulla-Silvestre, aka NOIA, gives right wing conservatism the full finger on her artistic new Laura Martinova directed video for ‘Nostalgia del Futuro’, a cautionary tale about those invoking and/0r ignoring the past to idealise the future. It comes from Fulla-Silvestre’s recently released Habits EP and sees her tellingly draped in reds and blacks in the Jardins Del Teatre Grec, a Greek styled Barcelona amphitheatre damaged by Franco’s fascist forces during the Spanish Civil War. If one knows a little about Spanish and Catalan history, the colours and the intent of both director and artist should be lost on no-one. Indeed, even if one doesn’t, the growing lurch towards exclusionary and authoritarian politics in both Europe and the U.S provides the modern snapshot.
Nostalgia Del Futuro
NOIA (SPA)
From the EP, ‘Habits’, Cascine.
NOIA Facebook
Official Video