Maps

Digital Photography,Instalation, 2019-2020

MAPS

Installation, video(2'06), sound, prop, photography, Ipad(1'35) H: 50cm L: 60cm D: 23cm, 2’00, 2020.

MAPS is an installation composed of a video projected inside a black concave prop, with its surface sprinkled with glitter, so that the image is better seen.

My research began with screen shots of visual spam that has been saturating my mailbox for a while. From these captures, I created a slide show, which I projected, first of all, on my face and eye, and then, on other people’s faces. Two distinct videos emerged from this process. One is a close-up video of my eye with spam images flickering on it.

From this video, I did a new montage, adding reversed and slowed down sound tracks (which gave rise to the title of the installation), other spam images, and a video of a mouth that opens that pops up occasionally.

The resulting montage was, subsequently, projected onto hand-made foam core cubes and rectangles of different sizes. The final film is projected onto a black prop that looks a bit like a geode, or a crater of some sort.