Pilar Mata Dupont b. 1981

Also known as
  • Artist (New Media Artist),
  • Artist (Performance Artist),
  • Artist (Photographer)
Pilar Mata Dupont is a Western Australian artist, who works across film, photography, spectacle, performance, and design, sometimes in collaboration with Tarryn Gill, or as part of Hold Your Horses, with Gill and Thea Costantino.
Tags: BEAP, Film, Finland, Korea, SeMA Biennale: Mediacity Seoul 2014
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Courtesy of: Pilar Matar Dupont
creator of
The Embrace (이상적인 포옹)
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single channel high definition video
URL
http://pilarmatadupont.com/The-Embrace

The two figures from the 'Three Charters for National Reunification’ monument near Pyongyang embrace in joy, only to have their bliss dissipate and a new, and unexpectedly uncomfortable, era to emerge.

 
Courtesy of: Pilar Matar Dupont
creator of
Kaiho III
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single channel high definition video
URL
http://pilarmatadupont.com/Kaiho-III

Pilar Mata Dupont has segmented the Winter War (between USSR and Finland 1939/40) into the important battles and then remapped them as ice hockey plays for a one-on-one game.

 
Courtesy of: Pilar Matar Dupont
creator of
The Madman is a Dreamer Awake
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Photograph
URL
http://pilarmatadupont.com/The-Madman-is-a-Dreamer-Awake

This work re-creates a dream Sigmund Freud had while holidaying in Schönau am Königssee in the late 1800s, while writing 'The Interpretation of Dreams’. The area is also infamous as a site for the National Socialists and Hitler resided there for a time.

 
Courtesy of: Pilar Matar Dupont
creator of
Kaiho II
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Medium
single channel high definition video
URL
http://pilarmatadupont.com/Kaiho-III

This work was created in Finland in 2012 and forms part of the 'Kaiho’ series, a video based triptych relating to the concept of the 'kaiho’ (Finland’s version of saudade or longing for something unobtainable). The artist developed a narrative from melding the story of Aino in the Kalevala (the Finnish epic) with Finnish and Karelian folklore, and memories collected from Finnish people.

 
creator of
Ever Higher
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film
URL
http://www.tarrynandpilar.com/Ever-Higher-Film-1

 
Courtesy of: Pilar Matar Dupont
creator of
Kaiho I
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Medium
single channel high definition video
URL
http://pilarmatadupont.com/Kaiho-III

This work was created in Finland in 2011 and forms part of the 'Kaiho’ series, a video based triptych relating to the concept of the 'kaiho’ (longing for something unobtainable). 'Kaiho I’ explores the concept with Finnish tango movement and lyrics through an adaptation of The Kalevala, the Finnish national epic, relating it to a memory relayed to the artist by an elderly man about how he lost his wife.

 
creator of
army soldier
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collaborative work