„According to the beliefs of the Dogon people, stars were formed from the lumps of earth scattered in the sky, floating like particles of dust in the air.”
Media
Video HD
Year
2018
Work
Digital Animation
Tech
16:9
6’46’’
Film about dust
The video is a CGI animation that unfolds as a fantastical voyage through the air, venturing towards minuscule dust particles swirling within it. This journey serves as a pretext for contemplating the essence of the photosensitive image—its ephemeral nature, disintegration, oblivion, and inherent imperfections. Blank spots, once marked by cartographers with the phrase ‘Hic sunt dracones’ (here be dragons), symbolized both unknown places and the limits of understanding—an idea central to the artist’s latest work.
This relates to a fatigue caused by the overabundance of images and the vastness of the digital realm, which has grown so immense that it erodes our ability to perceive reality. In response, the work reflects a longing for a time when much of the world remained unexplored and undocumented — qualities that have always stirred the imagination.
In A Film about Dust, these reflections become the starting point for a fantastic journey through the air to swirling dust particles, prompting consideration of the photosensitive image’s fragility, flaws, and vulnerability to time.<