PANTA REI : EVERYTHING FLOWS
2012. Size variable. Single channel or projection.
First presented at:
The Fourth State of Water: From Micro to Macro.
Center of Contemporary Art, Torun, Poland.
March 2012.
Exhibition Catalog >pp. 36,37,38
An endless amount of trash flowing towards the viewer in perpetual motion.
Water is a medium of communication, the movement that brings to the surface what was underneath, and carries it with it. The river is then a metaphor of a passage, a course that can bridge two worlds, a transmitter. It can carry you to the other side but can’t take you back. It has been often referred to as a metaphor of time. “You cannot step into the same river twice”, said Heraclitus. In Dante’s Divina Commedia, the river Acheronte provides a passage to the souls of the dead, the definitive route into the underworld.
The animation is rendered with a cartoonish look to emphasize the contrast between the seemingly innocent style of the image, and the seriousness of the content.
In my mind this project is not meant just as a local socio-political commentary, but it assumes a larger connotation. It is a metaphor of the passage we are facing epochally, with water at the center of the struggle for sustainability and the choices we make or don't make.
2012. Size variable. Single channel or projection.
First presented at:
The Fourth State of Water: From Micro to Macro.
Center of Contemporary Art, Torun, Poland.
March 2012.
Exhibition Catalog >pp. 36,37,38
An endless amount of trash flowing towards the viewer in perpetual motion.
Water is a medium of communication, the movement that brings to the surface what was underneath, and carries it with it. The river is then a metaphor of a passage, a course that can bridge two worlds, a transmitter. It can carry you to the other side but can’t take you back. It has been often referred to as a metaphor of time. “You cannot step into the same river twice”, said Heraclitus. In Dante’s Divina Commedia, the river Acheronte provides a passage to the souls of the dead, the definitive route into the underworld.
The animation is rendered with a cartoonish look to emphasize the contrast between the seemingly innocent style of the image, and the seriousness of the content.
In my mind this project is not meant just as a local socio-political commentary, but it assumes a larger connotation. It is a metaphor of the passage we are facing epochally, with water at the center of the struggle for sustainability and the choices we make or don't make.
INSTALLATION PICS
CREDITS
Concept /Art Direction: Silvia Rigon
3D modeling: Andres Lozano
3D animation/Post-production: Silvia Rigon
Concept /Art Direction: Silvia Rigon
3D modeling: Andres Lozano
3D animation/Post-production: Silvia Rigon
SCREEN CAPTURES
