Past, present, future, and, all in between.
I construct the city like kind of mental panoramic landscape.
The sea acts as a mirror to reflect the conditions of human beings.
What is the influence of the landscapes we encounter in the construction of our personality and our regard? Our Identities are in constant change through Time and Space, formed by the personal experience of each of us. Are our drifts similar to those of the continents: imperceptible but powerful movements causing flaws and encounters, fusions but also disappearances of lands?
Through images and sounds, I hope to bring spectator’s attention to various different subjects, such as nostalgia, nomadism, displacement, psygeography, pursuit after one’s utopia, heterotopia.
I try to guide the spectator on journey of experience through varied sounds and sights, arousing a deeply layered sense of alienation and giving the spectator’s conscience the chance to interact with the exterior world, producing a continually expanding shock and reverberation.
The series of audio are a composition between daily life soundscapes and personal memories of songs and poems. The soundtrack prolongs the vision and enlarges the field of the video. It extended the atmosphere of the video and further bring the spectator into an unsettling environment, of an “Uncanny ”1 experience.
1. The Uncanny (Ger. Das Unheimliche – literally, “un-home-ly”, but ideomatically, “scary”, “creepy”) is a Freudian concept of an instance where something can be familiar, yet foreign at the same time, resulting in a feeling of it being uncomfortably strange.