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Time, Body & Space
(2024)
Visual Essay, Film
Research
In this film, I ask the viewer to step outside of themselves and question the concept of face and its inescapable consequences. I place the focus on my silhouette to invite the viewer to understand my experience and speculate their own.
Software/Tools
Touchdesigner + Illustrator + Photoshop + Runway + Blackmagic + Sony A7 + Premier + Davinci + Audacity
Question
The film is set in New York city and I use themes of visibility,
surveillance and urban infrastructure to create a visual essay montage
of clips and that take the viewer through an induced existential state
that contemplates questions like:
how do our bodies exist in space?how do our bodies exist in space?How do we begin to know or feel where we are?
Film
Visual Inspiration
This work is in conversation with contemporary works around visibility and embodiment. From concealing the face, to the use of green screen and turned away subjects, I draw inspiration from the artists Lorna Simpson, Glenn Ligon and Farah Al Qasimis presenting their work at the Guggenheim show titled Going Dark (James 2024). Additionally, I center Ja’Tovia Gary’s film The Giverny Suite (2019) , where she engages with the conversation of safety for black women and centers the lived experience of the body and brings attention to the systems that disrupt the experience of safety.