Numen

Video, 3:03

An abstract bio-portrait of María Soliño, drawing on folkloric currents and the atmospheric logic found in the artwork of Remedios Varo. Rather than depicting lives directly, the piece engages with the lingering presence of midwives, healers, and caretakers, as well as figures whose everyday roles were later entangled with accusations of sorcery and witchcraft. Numen is a vignette that centers on a house set within a forest and on how it operates as a shifting threshold where different temporalities overlap. Mythological beings drift through this space, and interiors seem to slip in and out of time’s alignment. The characters surface less as stable identities and more as traces within these environments, inhabiting an old clock, a memory, or possibly the consciousness of the figures depicted. The work treats history as permeable, allowing identities, eras, and imagined realities to intersect without settling into a fixed narrative.

Visual material generated through AI-based image synthesis and directed composition by Mario Manuel Marzán, including a reconstructed interpretation of Remedios Varo’s Ciencia Inútil. Sound treatment and sonic recomposition of Milladoiro’s “A Bruxa” by Mxllghxst.