De_Absorption

De_Absorption is about the interaction of machines, and buildings within the city landscape. For this piece I filmed commercial airplanes crossing the city as signifiers of machines that has been imbedded into our sky view. Also, I recorded different construction sites and the presence of workers, at the edge of unfinished skeletons of buildings, to highlight the deep dependency of us creating these structures that will then take agency over our modes of dwelling.

The footage from these sites are arranged as a six-screen channel video for the airplanes, and a three-channel video for the workers. Then, I alter the normal functioning of time and space in these videos by post-digital editing and sequencing. The airplanes start moving backwards and forwards, in slow motion, and speed up across the frames on a loop. On the workers, the static camera view I usually use, starts tilting up and down disjointing their spatial coherence.

I reveal the views of airplanes crossing the city skies and of workers on a construction site, from a familiar recognition of patterns in urban spaces, into an experience of the everyday as a contested space where nature, structures, and humans collaborate and collide.