Walking Desert
03:00, 2008
Walking Desert, shows the a woman walking through a desert landscape (Nevada, USA) until she is not seen anymore, swallowed by the vast, dry and rocky land and the sound of her footsteps give way to eternal stillness.
Walking Desert is part of the Walking trilogy, a reflection on the human condition, each video is an entity and has a different setting; -Beach, -Desert, -Hall. A Trilogy on human condition; all have been filmed with a fixed camera and include original sound recording. All three show the same woman in a purple dress walking into the distance.
The Walking trilogy is a reflection on the human condition.
Walking Hall
03:00, 2008
Walking Hall takes place in a confined, limited space, a long corridor with doors either side and at its end. A woman in purple dress walks repeatedly down the hall; she disappears and reappears just to walk down the hall, past closed doors, once more. Her movement tightens with repetition, becomes nervous and increasingly tense, until, finally, she collapses in front of the bottom door.
Walking Hall is part of the Walking trilogy, a reflection on the human condition, each video is an entity and has a different setting; -Beach, -Desert, -Hall. A Trilogy on human condition; all have been filmed with a fixed camera and include original sound recording.
Walking Hall reflects on mental struggle and limitations.
Walking Beach
03:00, 2008
In Walking Beach, a woman walks on to the beach (Gulf Coast, USA) until she disappears in the far mist, dissolves within the landscape, swallowed by air molecules, dissolved in time.
Walking Beach is part of the Walking trilogy, a reflection on the human condition, each video is an entity and has a different setting; -Beach, -Desert, -Hall. A Trilogy on human condition; all have been filmed with a fixed camera and include original sound recording. All three show the same woman in a purple dress walking into the distance.
The Walking trilogy is a reflection on the human condition.
Missing You
07:20, 2007
Missing You shows a close-up on a woman’s torso wrapped in pink silks. It shows a moment of desire and longing, of sensuality and solitude, but also of suffering from the absence of the other, leading from self-destruction to self-healing. The video has a performance character with a fixed frontal camera perspective. The sound creation is multi-layered intertwining the ‘here’ and ‘there’.
Due to the absence of the loved one, abandonment and desertion impose scenes of solitude to an utmost rawness. Body becomes the medium of expression of a mental state of fragility. Beyond words, desire and void trigger off the need to reinvent the image of the self.
Lisanne Nadeau, curator of the Biennale of Québec 2008
Kiss me
01:00, 2008
Kiss me is a one-minute animation consisting of close-ups of a mouth swallowing and releasing some tentacular-like plant. This piece expresses seduction and attraction, erotic and sensual playfulness and pairs it with rejection. It is a physical experience between inner and outer body, between the self and the other. The sound adds layers of rhythmic sounds and a male voice reading a love letter. This distorted voice echoes in a distance recalling mysterious sound and imagery of dark waters.
Bride
10:35, 2007
A woman sits still in front of a dark red floral veil that moves gently with the breeze. Little by little, her white lacy dress turns transparent with what might be tears running down her neck and her open hair, wetting the fabric. The face is never visible and she hardly moves, just breathes, re-positions her arms and hands, perhaps waiting for the unknown. With those subtle movements the delicate material of her ‘dress’ tears and reveals bare skin. This layer of fabric is also a protective sheet that revealed itself as being unreal. The time of enduring ends as she gets up, swaying softly towards the camera; she appears to be dancing, timidly. It is a dance of solitude, absurd, dreamy. Then, she approaches the camera and puts an end to the filming.
#1 (hottest pink)
15:35, 2007
The camera is fixed on hands and feet of a woman who is about to varnish her toenails. One witnesses this intimate moment of beauty care as it turns slowly into a moment of mental fragility, instability. This act of varnishing is first a tender confrontation with the self; it is repetitive and calm. But soon the tension raises, frustration builds up and all turns into excessiveness leaving striking, unbearable traces on the body. Facing those consequences, she nervously and vigorously rubs off the varnish just as one might seek to rub off traces of one’s experiences. An impossible struggle with the self and one’s history.