2-channel SD video installation, colour, sound, vintage dress
Endless loop projection
06:59 min.
This video installation combines colour, sound and vintage dress into an endless loop projection that tells the story of a rainy forest and a ballerina. On one side of the screen hangs a white … Read More
This video installation combines colour, sound and vintage dress into an endless loop projection that tells the story of a rainy forest and a ballerina. On one side of the screen hangs a white dress that turns green as it melanges with the projection of the rainy forest. On the left, the text written in cursive tells a story, with a faint melody playing in the background, as if it was coming from a music box. The slowly disappearing text reads a story. Dreaming and trauma seem to be connected as the artist reflects on her experience of the war in Herzogovnian in which she was always stuck between the desire for resistance and escapism. During the war everything was dark, and the only thing that kept her alive was dreaming, as young kids do. Dream-like stories are important relics during times of war, by writing them on ink and paper. This search to preserve and create meaning with ink on paper makes us princesses and princes, “lost in the forest of wishes” (Muka, 2009: Deux Mots). The wedding dress remains hanging on the hook, never worn, and the dreams dissipate as soon as they are written down– uncatchable. In this folkloric and mysterious story, Kamerik lets us wander into the dreams that shape our complex realities.
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