From May 8 to May 27, 2026 in Espai n-1, UPV Central Library.
Inauguration: May 8, 2026 at 1 p.m.
Hours: Monday to Friday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., Saturday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The Green Stripe is an exhibition of Bruno Delgado Ramo y Regina Rivas Tornés. It takes its name from two elusive phenomena, on the one hand, the “green stripe” which can arise accidentally on a photochemical film due to rubbing of the projector on the emulsion, and, on the other hand, the “green lightning” The rare optical phenomenon that is fleetingly visible on the horizon just before sunset. Both refer to the same idea, to the apparition as an improbable event.
Based on this relationship, the exhibition brings together 16 mm and Super 8 films, installations, site-specific sculptures, slide projectors, episcopes and a collective work with the students of the Optomechanics Workshop. The exhibition, held this month, to think about the moving image from its material, temporal and luminous dimension.
In the exhibited works, erosion, scratching, repetition, radiation, the measurement of light or the inversion of time cease to be secondary effects and become the subject of the work. In pieces such as The green line (Continuous Scratch Test) in Green on black, a black film rotates in the expectation that the use itself will produce a green stripe in Green on black, the paint appears as an incision in the emulsion; in Green on black, the paint appears as an incision in the emulsion. Four a Square (After Baldessari), chance is rehearsed over and over again; in Landscape X the X-rays physically alter the film and convert this alteration into light oscillation.
The exhibition also includesLe crayon vert, collective installation developed with the students participating in theOptomechanics Workshopconceived as a cinematic experience that is only activated at specific times of the day.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Regina Rivas Tornés develops an artistic and research practice focused on the materiality of moving images, technological obsolescence and the technical processes that sustain audiovisual memory. She works in the Conservation-Restoration Department of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, being in charge of the audiovisual media collection. She was a scholarship holder at the Spanish Academy in Rome.
Bruno Delgado Ramo is an artist and filmmaker with a background in architecture. His practice develops between experimental film, installation and material research on cinematic media, understanding filming and projection as situated light and spatial processes. His work has been shown at festivals such as International Film Festival Rotterdam, Punto de Vista, EXiS Experimental Film and Video Festival or Curtas Vila do Conde, and he has carried out residencies and research in centers such as WIELS, Matadero Madrid, BilbaoArte and the Spanish Academy in Rome.