Fernando Colin
“Rostres Nòmades” (Nomadic Faces) is an international project born from the collaboration of three regions, aimed at promoting artistic research residencies and contemporary art creation centered on the concept of identity through the face.
The project is led by the Centro de Investigación y Cultura Contemporánea Casa Planas (Balearic Islands), 3C Calce Culture Contemporaine (Occitania), and the Festival Panoràmic (Catalonia). All three organizations focus on promoting visual arts, contributing to the collective imagination and cultural identity of the European region, especially in the Pyrenees-Mediterranean Euroregion.
"Rostres Nòmades" is a traveling call for research and production focused on image and archives. It proposes an artistic exploration of the face through contemporary photography and audiovisual language. The selected project by artist Fernando Colin examines self-representation, archives, and technology, exploring how the face itself has become a tool for control and recognition.
The residency program addresses topics such as representations of the face and human body as map, landscape, conflict, narrative, and surface. It consists of two residency periods (May and June 2023).
The first residency at Casa Planas (Palma) focused on research within the Planas Archive. This creative project included a workshop, led by Alelí Mirelman and Fernando Colin, with Fundación Esment, engaging people with diverse abilities on concepts of face, identity, and collective voice.
The second residency at 3C (Calce) took place in a rural setting, aimed at developing an archive through a collective and socially mediated process.
The residency results were presented at the 2023 Festival Panoràmic (Granollers).
L.AURA Experiment
Identity is one of the few concepts so paradoxically constructed that it leads only to philosophical dead ends. At a collective scale, communalism intensifies, and identity claims become increasingly tense. At an individual level, personal development expands its market, and the “self” narcissism spreads through algorithmic applications in social media. If identity is to be questioned in this way, something within this notion seems to resist abandonment: the desire to be oneself. Fernando Colin draws on P. Ricœur’s narrative identity, A. Cvetkovich’s archive of feelings, and A. Tello’s anarchivism to reflect on identity, face, and archives.
“Experiment L.AURA” is an installation composed of three videos. It is a sci-fi-style essay imagining the relationship between a character named Joan and an artificial intelligence called L.AURA from the 1970s to the present day in Mallorca. This piece questions the notion of truth in images and the coexistence of humans with artificial intelligence.
