Cambre’s
time-based Glass Cinema House deals with film, popular culture, human behavior,
memory, and its relationship to architecture. The transparent, rectangular
glass container with its severe black pedestal resembles a Minimalist form. It
becomes the arena for (a silent fragment from) the artist’s video Paseante
(Passerby) to unfold—a solitary female figure wandering aimlessly inside the
buildings on the University of Puerto Rico campus (designed by Heinrich Klumb
in the 1960s). The juxtaposition of the fixed cube and the interior bluish glow
of the looped projection calls to mind T.S. Eliot’s verse from his Burnt
Norton:
“Time
present and time past /
Are
both perhaps present in time future.”
-Elaine
King, Sculpture Magazine
"Employing
a mixture of music, sound disruptions and pregnant silences, Cambre presents in
his video Puerta del Sol an almost Goyaesque view of Madrid in the twenty-first
century that is by turns detached, curious and ironic."
-Nicollette
Ramirez, Infinite Island catalogue, Brooklyn Museum
"The
video... explores the tension between documented and fictitious history. Cambre
presents the marginal world that exists in central Madrid, steps away from
Puerta del Sol. Prostitutes, beggars, gypsies-characters generally assumed to
be undesirable for representing society-pose for the camera or are captured in
flagrante delicto, as if the artist were a paparazzo and they, his prisoner
celebrities... nothing seems to stop the hardship..."