La Paura del Buio is a piece of videoart that talks about youth, violence and all the troubles you must go through because of who you are. It’s a reflection of the reality we are living in. How things work lately and how we’ve reached a point of no return between what’s wrong and what’s right. I also talk about the white teenagers that are “accepted” by society. They don’t have any problem because they are not part of any collective. They are not scared of walking down the street alone at night or at certain areas because they are exactly what’s causing the problem.
Beatriz Montes, or better known as Ruska, is a visual artist, photographer, illustrator, video artist and performer born in Madrid, Spain (1998) that shows violence and experimental etnography through those disciplines. A few pieces of her artwork have been presented on exhibitions at La Trasera (Facultad de Bellas Artes, UCM, Madrid); the video art festival El país de los tuertos (Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid) and also at Viewbug by being selected at least 36 times winner of photography awards. Graduated in Fine Arts (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), her start begins with the creation of a few projects that involved things such as photography, using messages featuring the artwork, etc. At this moment, still member of the research group “UCM: El cuerpo en el arte contemporáneo: imagen y sujeto” since 2018, she works with the main concepts of her artwork but in a deeper way.
