INSTALLATION VIDÉO

2020

Photos: Simon Courchel

SYNOPSIS

The first film takes place in Atacama, one of the driest deserts in the world, in northern Chile, where many people who disappeared during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet were buried anonymously. This infinite shaped performance poetically restores the existence of those who were denied an identity. The infinity sign appearing in this work also evokes the Moebius band, an object where upward and downward, inside and outside melt which urges the viewer to consider the way the truth has been twisted in recent news and political events particularly in Chile

The second film is the image of a tree that has left a hole when falling down. With this gesture, the 0 (the hole) and the 1 (the tree) force us to consider how, when we fail to acknowledge the missing, we deny everyone’s existence. In other words, without the zero—the lack—it is impossible to count one by one. The power of this film lies in its simplicity, reducing the visual effect to what the camera offers: a fixed shot of a moving image, a logic symbol.

By a similar logic, the third film evokes this same notion: how the accumulation of “ones” produces a human Tsunami.