Carola Cíntron | Puerto Rico

Un minuto de silencio (A minute of Silence), 2005

This video started as a personal exploration of the mourning process and the incapacity or the inability to deal with feelings of lost and death. During different visits to the park, different people were asked to do a minute of silence for someone they have lost. The video presents a split image, each side with one person doing a minute of silence. The image changes every other minute, presenting 24 persons, each one performing its own tribute or individual ritual of remembrance. While each person was recorded individually, and the action was performed as part of an individual process, the work is also an exploration of the mourning process as a cultural and collective act, exploring the possibility of a collective tribute and the creation of a collective memory.

Carola Cintrón receives her BA in public Communications with honors from the university of Puerto Rico and an MFA in computer art from the school of Visual Arts. Awards and residencies include an award from d.u.m.b.o. Arts Center and the experimental Television Center and a residency at Dyapason in New York City. Her work has been shown internationally at the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Juan, Puerto Rico, at the China Millennium Museum in Beijing, China, in Spain and New York City.
Cintrón’s works addresses the construction of identity and fragmented reality mediated by memories and transformation within the self and the collective. Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico where she lives and works.