works / 2013
anatomy of darkness
- year
- 2013
- format
- video
Anatomy of darkness reflects on the body and on the traces it leaves in those it comes into contact with.
More than physical matter, what marks a contact is often imagination, and then memory. The ephemeral, the loss of focus, the displacement of the plane of reality are the most lasting traces of a body: the bonds it generates and the forms it virally produces live in another space, dark, on the border between perceived, remembered and imagined.
Technically, the video is a projection on an ephemeral surface. The original footage of a dancer is projected onto a screen of smoke and shot again in close-up, on the surface lit by the projector. The gap between the original footage and the final video, the loss of shape and detail caused by a support that depends on, and is changed by, environmental conditions, mirrors the immateriality of the shifting relational space created by bodies in contact.
photography: Damiano Andreotti · performer: Valentina Giolo · music: Luca Sigurtà
