Project Description
Animated video installation in periodic projection
The oversized video installation simulates an aquarium creating an underwater spectacle spectacular in its beauty but saturated with tensions and internal contradictions, dealing with the relationship between human nature, ancient and traditional cultures and contemporary culture and between source and imitation. In fact, it is a type of simulacra that offers a delightful and distorted imitation of reality, both in the construction of an aquarium that seeks to imprison a seemingly realistic piece of nature as the way of any aquarium, and in its creation with digital tools. The simulacra, for Baudrillard, not only undermines the vanity between the real and the false and between the real and the imagined; She does this in an attempt to make up for a reality that has been lost forever
The work offers a kind of cyclical allegory for the complex relationship between man and nature, illustrating on the one hand man’s admiration for the beauty of nature and the desire for his property, and on the other hand the pollution and destruction costs of these acts of appropriation. The Buddha figure in Eastern culture is associated with the search for peace and quiet, and Buddha statues are used as popular aquarium ornaments, especially in the East. In this work the role of the Buddha statue is layered – it represents an indulgence in a world that was and is not and a rich cultural past, but serves itself as an inexpensive material imitation intended to decorate; The closing of his eyes, which is identified as a symbol of balance and peace, also serves as a metaphor for helplessness in the war against the growing ecological damage that threatens the peace of the
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