The painting animations in these series are recreations of viral videos of epic fails, most of the time viral videos of Drunk Teenagers found on instagram and YouTube. To make each video, I use one single canvas, over which I paint and photograph over and over again, until I have all of the stills of one animation. The animations loop on TVs, and most times I show the paintings near the screens.
Below are Be Drunk, Fallen, Frenzy, Britney Twirling and more...
Below are Be Drunk, Fallen, Frenzy, Britney Twirling and more...
White shoes and vomit, 2024, 7-seconds loop
Exhibited at Spring Break Art Show, Sept 2024, New York
Exhibited at Spring Break Art Show, Sept 2024, New York
Britney Twirling, 2022, 60-seconds loop
Exhibited at Cristin Tierney Gallery, March 2022, New York
Exhibited at Cristin Tierney Gallery, March 2022, New York
Be drunk
2020, Stop motion painting animations, and paintings
Solo exhibition Claudia Bitran: Be drunk at Walter Storms Galerie, Munich, Germany nov2020-feb2021
2020, Stop motion painting animations, and paintings
Solo exhibition Claudia Bitran: Be drunk at Walter Storms Galerie, Munich, Germany nov2020-feb2021
| Sam Anderson on Claudia Bitran Be Drunk Solo Exhibition at Walter Storms Galerie 2020-2021.pdf |
| Amanda Nedham_Be Drunk_Claudia Bitran.pdf |
Fallen
2019, Stop motion painting animations,
On view at Cindy Rucker Gallery June 22nd- August 2nd, New York
2019, Stop motion painting animations,
On view at Cindy Rucker Gallery June 22nd- August 2nd, New York
Claudia Bitran’s stop-motion animations depict anonymous female teenagers in euphoric and anxious states of inebriation. Taking stills from videos found on social media, the bright chromatic composition in which Bitran reproduces these clips provides an unbiased channel into youth culture, and the brushwork emphasizes the instability of the characters; as they lose control over their bodies, the figures morph in and out of abstraction.
| Glorious Scars_The spectacle of pain and the willing to witness_ Rebecca Shapass on Claudia Bitran's series Fallen.pdf |
Selection of painting stills from video animations
Bitran’s Fallen stop-motion painting animations depict anonymous female teenagers in euphoric and anxiety-inducing states of inebriation. The compositions, gestures, and pacing of the paintings emphasize the instability of the characters as they lose control over their vomiting, falling bodies. The stills are layered over each previous iteration producing a final painting where the trauma of the actions in the animations is covered, yet still present.
REVISTA GALIO
Entrevista a Claudia Bitran
Entrevista a Claudia Bitran
Frenzy
2020, Stop motion painting animations,
Exhibited at Spring Break art Show, March 2020, New York
Installation view of "Claudia Bitran: FRENZY" Spring Break Art Show booth 1022, curated by Lauren Powell, March 2020
In Frenzy , Bitran further explores the tipping point between euphoria and near death experiences. By painting each frame of these found videos, she is expanding time and analyzing each microsecond of the actions. The artist employs a wide range of painting strategies that both glorify and petrify the vulgarity of the actions, resulting in surfaces that are affected, thick and loaded with the poses of the young disoriented bodies. The final paintings are a ghostly metamorphosis of the source material, while the animations serve as documentation of the painting’s evolving stages. The process is both empathetic, and at the same time pulls back the curtain to reveal the invisible horror behind the subject matter.
Studio photo by Walter Wlodarczyk
Claudia Bitran Studio photo by Walter Wlodarczyk Pioneer Works