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Man Jayen. Cristina de Middel

Name: Man Jayen. Cristina de Middel
Start: 2015-11-19T01:00
End: 2015-11-20T00:59
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By 1911 the North Pole had been discovered and these first brave explorers had blazed a trail for secondary heroes who wanted to show their courage and take home some unforgettable and unique memories.

These were the beginnings of extreme tourism.

In this context, a group of supposedly wealthy German and British scientists decided to "rediscover" Jan Mayen, an island located between Greenland and Iceland that whalers had used for years, but that science had never studied.

They sailed, argued, quarreled, forgot their compass, ran out of coal, managed to reach the island, but the ship was too big and they could not disembark.

End of story. No medals to bring back this time and no serious discoveries in any of the fields of science that the team proudly represented.

History is written by the victors and the team's cameraman knew this well. He convinced the unsuccessful group to stop on their way back to an Icelandic beach and stage the landing with all the drama that such a heroic feat entails.

This is the true chronicle of how history was staged.

Cristina De Middel

MAN JAYEN

The Museum inaugurated yesterday the exhibition Man Jayen and the book of the same title, which constitute the latest artistic project of Cristina de Middela recognized bestseller of photography publications.

Produced in-house and curated by Valentín Vallhonrat and Rafael Levenfeld, members of the Museum's Artistic Direction Committee, the exhibition will be installed in the Museum's Tower Room, on floor +1, until March 13. The artist's collaboration with the Museo Universidad de Navarra will continue through the program for the creation of contemporary art promoted by the center, entitled Tender PuentesCristina de Middel will start working on this program after this inauguration.

Before the World War Ia English and German crew without experience in navigation but with experience in other sciences, embarks on a trip with the aim of reaching Jan Mayen Island. The ship manages to reach the island but it was so ostentatious and inappropriate that it did not manage to reach to land. One of the members of the expedition was a cinematographer and, in order to show this adventure to the world, he convinced the crew to go on board.epresenting the arrival on the island. Convinced, they docked the ship on a beach in Iceland and reenacted what would have been their feat. The captain described all the scenes, from the excitement of stepping ashore to the raising of the flag, as a script in his diary.

Cristina de Middel recreates this story by recording the missing video from the AMC archive, shot in Super 8 and following the mise-en-scene described in the captain's diary. After the making of the video, the artist developed the project with a series of photographs taken on Skye Island in Scotland that are mixed with those of the original background. The two sets of images form a mural of 50 photographs and two showcases with material from 1911.

The title of the exhibition, Man Jayen, is a play on words with the name of the island where the artist satirizes with the nonsense of the exhibition. Her photography lacks rules and presents fictional scenes through a lens based on the reality of her photographs. De Middel intends to make the visitor reflect and question the validity of the image as proof of reality.

CRISTINA DE MIDDEL

2006 Madrid, Spain

IV War IV Correspondents Training, Army, Army School, Army School

Course on International Humanitarian Law and Peacekeeping Operations of the Spanish Red Cross.

2002 Barcelona, 0b 0bSpain

Photojournalism, Postgraduate , Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona

2001 Valencia, Spain

MA Fine Arts, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain

2000 Oklahoma, USA

M.A. Photography from the University of Oklahoma.PROMOE Scholarships

1975 Alicante, Spain

Born