“Viatge a la Llum” is a working title for a recent audiovisual project by Alessandro Quaranta and Barbara Held, a reading of the sound and moving images recorded in Iran by Toni Serra *) Abu Ali, left inedited at his death in 2019.

Toni’s contemplation of the spaces of nature and Persian architecture, mysticism and poetry, was especially guided by what he called the experience of light – the light that creates visions, an intangible presence in the darkness.

This version is the result of a research project by Alessandro Quaranta, and a reworking of a 5.1 sound work that I have been elaborating based on Toni’s archive of camera sound and music, as well as the detailed instructions that he left me in a brief work period at the end of his several month-long voyage to Iran. It will be presented as a work in progress at the end of December by the FLUX 2025 festival de vídeo d’autor in Barcelona.

El legado inacabado de un pensador que “supo cortocircuitar el imaginario hegemónico”Un vídeo inédito y un libro colectivo revisan la obra del videoartista catalán Catalina Serra ARA