HD video, b&w, 9:20 min, 2020
Our daily activities and mobility are constrained, limited, and fragmented. The readjustment of our ever-changing daily routine is disrupted by a heightened sense of unpredictability. The multitude of information and news accelerates our thoughts —between the present, past, and future. It distorts reality. Conspiracy becomes reality.
The video camera and sound recorder become witnesses and observers of the present, capturing fragments of my daily activity during the state of emergency—events at home, captured from the window and outside, on the way to the shops or during walks around the neighborhood.
These short fixed-camera shoots and sound recordings, captured over the course of a week at different times of day, cover the cycle of a day and form the basis of the work. The footage shot on different days is organized sequentially by recording time, thus compressing a week into a single day.
This series of sequential micro-narratives, with a docu-fictional character, offers a personal reflection during the pandemic.
The sound of the video sequences is dissociated and inverted, the interior with the exterior and vice versa, dislocating the image from its original context, implicitly our perception of reality…
Made in the frame of Artists Rooms program, by Fundația 9
