Seen from above, a girl spins and twirls, her Converse sneakers beating a rhythm on the concrete pavement below her, her body making an introspective choreography, inside and outside, around, through, and below a plastic hoop. The hoop twirls on her wrist, encircles her waist. It becomes an extension of her body, a cipher for her imagination. It contains her even as she controls its spiraling movements. Filmed in black & white Super-8, Johanna Unzueta's Dinamarca: Mercurio y Hula Hoop (2016) is a joyful and introspective meditation on line and space, on drawing with the body, on containment and elegant solutions to its imposition.
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