"Familiar Aesthetics of the Environment (Anatomy of Devastation)" 2023
Installation consisting of 9 monitors displaying various video collages of digitized 8mm family archive film and digital documentary videos, interconnected with cables and sound.
"Familiar Aesthetics of the Environment (Anatomy of Devastation)" is a documentary video installation that explores the metaphorical connection between family relationships and natural disasters. The installation combines old 8 mm family film footage with current digital imagery depicting local environmental issues and natural disasters.
The installation consists of a minimum of 9 interconnected monitors of various sizes, visibly linked by cables. The distinctive sound of a film projector accompanies the looping videos. The installation can grow in the number of monitors and size, depending on whether the exhibition space allows for a safe and aesthetically pleasing arrangement of monitors and cables. The goal is to create an immersive visual and auditory experience that enables the viewer to reflect on the relationship between the human-urban component and the natural environment.
I am fascinated by the idea that family relationships and natural phenomena seem to belong to the same essence. In this regard, we could say that, like a storm, a hurricane, or a forest fire, family relationships can be unpredictable, changing, and at times destructive. Both concepts contain processes of creation and destruction within themselves and are intimately related. Natural phenomena are mostly the result of environmental and social crises, which, in turn, stem from a broader crisis affecting the individual and their relationship with the world. I explore the relationship between the human-urban component and the natural, as well as the contrast between analog material and digital images.