The Stability of the System
17 min / 2016 / in collaboration with Isabel Mallet
The Stability of the System is an exploration into the material agency of images and of forms and their ability to call each other into being. The film begins with a mathematical point willing itself into dimensional existence, inventing/discovering space, then time. Shot on the volcanic island of Lanzarote, the film’s images are eruptions willed into existence by the creative act of the molten rock. The landscape absorbs all subjectivity, hallucinating itself in the monochrome of endless black lava fields and scorching white of a cloudless sky. In the end the filmmaker dissolves into the landscape, no longer able to see - the landscape sees for her.
Exhibition list:
Premiere: Rotterdam International Film Festival, The Netherlands, 2017
Solo show: Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt, Germany, 2019
Solo screening: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, USA, 2019
Sonic Acts, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2017
Inland Art Festival, Redruth, UK, 2017
Progress Bar: Art After the Posthuman - Boundaries and Relations, Lighthouse, Brighton, UK, 2017
Nocturnal Reflections: Light/Landscape Sense, Macao, Milan, Italy, 2018
As installed at a solo exhibition at Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Germany, 2019