Once again Andrea Juan uses violence as the central axis of her work. However the reference has become increasingly subtle, and rides on the urgency of the act of saving a life; an obsession with emergencies and immanent danger is the backdrop to her works, in which an emotional distance prevents the outbreak of pain, which is barely hinted at. Two different and complementary videos projected in the room generate an unexpected crossing of images and sounds, while preserving the unity of concept. The reality we perceive splits into two as a visual simulacrum is established. There is interference in the vision, the lens has become opaque, the rhythm and sound also change.
We move to various European cities and countries, and Scotland, Germany and Austria are recognizable amongst them. The action starts when a hurried driver gets into an ambulance and starts [and undertakes] a journey which we share with him. The artist conducts a discourse on the silence and violence embedded in the ambiguity of a scene which suddenly becomes virtual, ludic and metaphorical. It is now of little importance whether the ambulance exists or not. What is inescapable is the request for help.
The vehicle drives round at great speed, but now is empty and the act of driving prevails over that of rescue. The rescue undertaken by a ghost driver leads to a danger of another order: that of stopping. In the city cultural signs proper to a metropolis rich in architecture, streets, shops and homes can be seen. The speed of some images leads us to fear that we are out of control, but gradually the pace calms down as we leave the city. From the highway everything becomes distant, the eye catches the movement, the blurred image is contained within certain limits, fixed references seen from the window establish an order which breaks the monotony.
The ambulance now proceeds aimlessly at a vertiginous speed, green blurs appear in the place of an image which has lost its shape. Like in a road movie, you have to keep driving, life speeds up until a sky heavy with white and grey clouds descends. Day gives way to evening and the camera focuses on a color text, in green, which reads: S.O.S.
Then, silence and darkness.
It is too late, the artist must be thinking… no possibility of rescue. You have to live through it. The movement does not cease. An ambulance without its siren looks for someone to save. It covers the city, goes onto the highway, crosses villages, open countryside… and continues on its haphazard way. We have already guessed that there is no goal, nothing to show the point of arrival. Only life. Everyone makes their way as best they can and accomplishes their own rescue - or not.