Files for Films
5 - 8 .3. 2024
Mauricio Freye, Paloma Polo, Adrian Schindler, Candela Sotos


1. Works by Mauricio Freyre





Semilla fantasma
Ghost  seed



Artist: Mauricio Freyre
Title: Semilla fantasma, Nr.5
Detail of photograph intervened with fluorescent pigment, archive of El Pais newspaper, year XI. Number 3.309 in the Herbarium of the RJBM
Medium: Photography, Drawing
Materials: Digital print
Size: 13,5 x 19,5 cm
Edition: Ed. of 8 + 2 AP
Year: 2024 
Price: 680,- €







Artist: Mauricio Freyre
Title: Semilla fantasma, Nr.5
Detail of photograph intervened with fluorescent pigment, archive of El Pais newspaper, year XI. Number 3.309 in the Herbarium of the RJBM
Medium: Photography, Drawing
Materials: Digital print
Size: 13,5 x 19,5 cm
Edition: Ed. of 8 + 2 AP
Year: 2024 
Price: 680,- €









Frutos sin nombre
Unnamed Fruits




Artist: Mauricio Freyre
Title: Frutos sin nombre, Nr.3
Photograph at scale 2:1, Box label 68, Unclassified material,
Colonial archive of the  Herbarium, Real Jardín Botanico de Madrid
Medium: Photography
Materials: Digital print
Size: 71 x 90 cm
Edition: Ed. of 3 + 2 AP
Year: 2024
Price: 1200,- €



Artist: Mauricio Freyre
Title: Frutos sin nombre, Nr.7
Photograph at scale 1:1, Box label 72, Unclassified material, 
Colonial archive of the  Herbarium, Real Jardín Botanico de Madrid
Medium: Photography
Materials: Digital print
Size: 42 x 30 cm
Edition: Ed. of 3 + 2 AP
Year: 2024 
Price: 240,- €










Diapositivas de etnobotanico
Ethnobotanical slides



Artist: Mauricio Freyre
Title: Ethnobotanical slides Nr.3
Slide reproduction
Personal archive, ethnobotany's expedition to Equatorial 
Medium: Photography
Materials: C-Print
Size: 30 x 30 cm
Edition: Ed. of 9 + 2 AP
Year: 2024 
Price: 320,- €






Artist: Mauricio Freyre
Title: Ethnobotanical slides Nr.5
Slide reproduction
Personal archive, ethnobotany's expedition to Equatorial 
Medium: Photography
Materials: C-Print
Size: 30 x 30 cm
Edition: Ed. of 9 + 2 AP
Year: 2024 
Price: 320,- €









Fotogramas Estados generales
Film stills Estados generales



Artist: Mauricio Freyre
Title: Estados generales, Film stills, Nr.2
16mm negative transfer to digital print
Medium: Film, Photography
Materials: Digital print
Size: 19,5 x 13,5cm
Edition: Ed. of 3 + 2 AP
Year: 2024 
Price: 440,- €






Artist: Mauricio Freyre
Title: Estados generales, Film stills, Nr.4
16mm negative transfer to digital print
Medium: Film, Photography
Materials: Digital print
Size: 19,5 x 13,5cm
Edition: Ed. of 3 + 2 AP
Year: 2024 
Price: 440,- €









S59
S59



Artist: Mauricio Freyre
Title: S59
Single-channel 16mm film, color, silent, 12’
Medium: Film
Materials: 16mm
Edition: Ed. of 2 + 2 AP
Signed and certificate of authenticity
Year: 2024 
Price: 12000,- €









Artist: Mauricio Freyre
Title: S59, 57
16mm negative transfer to digital print
Medium: Film, Photography
Materials: Digital print
Size: 28 x 15cm
Edition: Ed. of 3 + 2 AP
Year: 2024 
Price: 420,- €








Untitled
Sin titulo



Artist: Mauricio Freyre
Title: Untitled, 41
Super 8 Still
Medium: Film, Photograpy
Materials: C-Print
Size: 28 x 20cm
Edition: Ed. of 6 + 2 AP
Year: 2024 
Price: 220,- €









Semilla fantasma
Ghost  seed


In the second basement of the herbarium of the Botanical Garden of Madrid is located the S59 repository, a storage room of the historical herbarium that gathers botanical material that for various reasons is not possible to classify. This material from the former colonies was mostly collected during botanical expeditions between the 18th and 19th centuries. This accumulation of plant species gathered as discards, where all of them for multiple reasons have not been catalogued, and where neither their origin nor their nature has been studied, constitute a blind spot in the official archive. "Semilla fantasma" studies the relationship between modernity and coloniality by relating some of these excluded fragments, as well as different absences, gaps and distortions in the historiography of the collection itself. Estados generales" is a single-channel film that portrays the return journey of a packet of seeds belonging to the colonial period in Peru, from the archives of the Botanical Garden of Madrid to the place where they were collected on the southern coast of Peru.  









Biography

Mauricio Freyre is a researcher, audiovisual artist, and filmmaker with a background in architecture. In his work, he focuses on structures and systems of ideas at the margins of the constructed and projected, emphasizing blind spots, dark areas, accidents, distortions and forms of consciousness that are excluded. A current project he is engaged in is 'Estados Generales', which traces the role of botany and its systems within colonial sciences, exploring the political and subversive dimension of the plant world in relation to a western epistemology. It has received support from ICAA, Instituto de Cinematografía y Artes Audiovisuales in Spain, DAFO in Peru, FidLAB 2021 in Marseille and Residencias Matadero in Madrid. His project ‘Interspecies Architecture’ has been premiered in May 2021 at the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale as part of the Taiwan Pavilion.
Recently he has obtained the National Prize for Experimental Films awarded by the Ministry of Culture in Peru. His films and installations have been included in different programs and exhibitions including 17th Venice Architecture Biennale in Venice, Centro Centro, Madrid, Collectif Jeune Cinéma in Paris, Bisagra in Lima, Imagine Science Films in New York, Lima independiente, Festival Internacional de Cine Valdivia, Film Fest Gent, Strangloscope in Florianopolis, Les Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, l’Alternativa, Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, TENT in Rotterdam, Nederlands Film Festival in Utrecht and Fundación Telefonica in Lima.


More info: mauriciofreyre.com