a poster of the imaginary entirety of the body in the mirror hangs over moi bed
2021
a silent short film, exploring the performativity of the passive in a situation in which the artist scans his own body as a fleshy, distant, alien, raw entity, with the help of a lens mounted upside down on the camera and held by hand over the camera's sensor. a tilted image, which shows the result of this technique (the film itself) on the one hand, gives an insight into the performativity of the filming process itself (the crouched, concentrated body trying to hold the camera and itself still while filming itself) on the other.
the film was shot in the ruins of a medieval monastery. an ancient, wounded, lifeless landscape that, like the bodies that inhabit it, is a vague, vulnerable, lifeless reflection of itself.
‘the mirror image (this dismembered body) seems to be the threshold of the visible world when we surrender to the reflective arrangement presented by the imago of our own body in hallucination and dream’ (loosely based on the french psychoanalyst jacques lacan, the mirror stage as formative of the ego function, lecture, 1949).