Video & Video Installation
Selection of
Festival international de Rotterdam, 2005
Artronica, Bogota, 2004
Isolation is universal. This event or fact comes to the fore as soon as an individual experiences the need for seclusion, confinement, or nihilism. A need to a to forego our power of judgement, or else a need to punish oneself and reach a state of inhibition and unshakable longing. This opens the road to voices, to the cries of fantasy. Then comes the taboo, the guilt that reinforces doubt, fear, sickness. The most terrifying things in the world stem from the human brain. What is left to the man who is shut up onto himself, beside the fearsome changes induced by states of mind that go against reason?
“Fear increases confusion, taboos reinforces doubt, the abyss is always within reach, and so it has always been in the individual.”
“Without interruption from the outside, one can weave one’s dream, work on their substantiality. The hidden life can come to have more strength than reality… Even Alexander was more powerful in his dreams that in front of Issos. Something comes to us, wealth increases. One must decide how to control it.”
But this cannot be done as Aladdin did.
From this reclusion, Terrestra is supposed to arise as a free interpretation of Aladdin’s Problem and as a perspective through which to analyse images and their role in our fantasies.
(Excerpts are from Ernst Jünger’s Aladdin’s Problem)
