Marco Montiel-Soto

puentedeburros.com/marco Memories are Made of Chance and Mistakes Archaeology of a journey in Morocco, 2014 “The first time I went to Morocco, I took the world’s slowest ferry in Algeciras and arrived very late in Tanger. Two gentlemen, Mohammed and Mustafa, offered to be my city guide. I accepted, that moment was the beginning of the nightmare.” Marco Montiel-Soto “This will be all right, I said. But as soon as I took the needle out of the vein, I knew it wasn’t all right. I felt a soft blow in the heart. Pat’s face began to get black around the edges, the blackness spreading to cover his face. I could feel my eyes roll back in their sockets.” William S. Burroughs – Junky “They made me walk in the darkness, very deep in the Medina to an empty hotel and offered me all kind of strange business. Something weird was in the tea, images, dreams and lost memories, I remember feeling perplexed as to why both flies are trying to steal my passport, I can not remember so clearly but I found the way to escape to another city, then somebody followed me for a week. After that first impression of Morocco, I came back four more times.” Marco Montiel-Soto . For this exhibition project Marco Montiel Soto creates an installation including a map of Morocco with postcards, photographs, bus tickets, stones, money, (animal?) species, amulets, paper, flutes, drums, notes and sand from the desert. The viewer becomes an explorer accompanying the artist on his journey. The map is an open archaeological guidebook to his five sojourns in Morocco. The map dovetails with sound, found objects, Morocco’s musical instruments, photography and videos. The videos were recorded on the road, on the beach, in the desert, in cities, the Rif and Atlas Mountains, the Drâa valley, Erg Chebbi, oases with snakes, monkeys, camels and donkeys. A narrator tells the story of this journey to, from, and about different cities, languages, memories, conversations, prayers, storytellers, field recordings, drums and flutes. Alongside these memories, the visitor experiences a diffuse and dissected voyage as metaphor of the continuous personal-social movement, paranoia, and the intersection of real and imagined memories.

Memories are made of chance and mistakes //// Marco Montiel-Soto //// 5th Marrakech Biennale 2014 from Marco Montiel-Soto on Vimeo. Marco Montiel-Soto (1976, Maracaibo, Venezuela) studied Photography and did a master in Sound Studies at the Universität der Künste Berlin. After extensive travels across Europe, he settled in Berlin. His work has been presented in numerous exhibitions in South America, the United States and Europe such as Kinderhook & Caracas, Berlin, 2013; Galería D21, Santiago de Chile, 2013; Ars Electronica, Linz, 2012; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Maracaibo, 2012; Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, 2011; Hamish Morrison Galerie, Berlin, 2011; Savvy Contemporary, Berlin, 2011; Kommunale Galerie, Berlín, 2010; Espacio Al Borde, Maracaibo, 2010; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 2009; CCCB, Barcelona, 2009; LACE Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, 2008. He does not follow a straight line, but uses photography as a paper copy of an idea, writes symphonies using slides, and videos, and he constructs installations with found objects.