ENAR DE DIOS RODRIGUEZ | hosted by Ars Electronica

In cooperation with the Ars Electronica Festival 2025, Bildraum 07 presents the new audiovisual essay Above All, alongside a site-specific installation by Enar de Dios Rodríguez. The recipient of the 2024 Marianne.von.Willemer Prize for Digital Media—awarded by the City of Linz for innovative works that use digital media both as a tool and a means of expression—weaves together visual, material, and narrative elements to create dense, atmospheric environments.
In her earlier works Ecotone and Liquid Ground, de Dios Rodríguez already addressed the segregation of land and its connection to the exploitation of natural resources—both on land and beneath the sea. At Bildraum 07, Enar de Dios Rodríguez renders the sky legible as a site where our life support systems reside, where unequal power relations persist, and which serves as a backdrop for neocolonial dreams of occupation and exploitation. The installation echoes the vertical perspective, only to visually subvert it. Anyone entering the space inevitably intervenes in it: The images shift, crease, tear, explicitly revealing once again a presence that is both fragile and inescapable. Through the interplay of video, installation and engagement, complex visual and conceptual levels emerge where geopolitical tensions, historical continuities and the potential of collective action overlap.