MOVING SKINS (2025)
Video, Full HD 16:9, 06’12’’
Moving Skins explores the fragile, fading bond between humans, animals and nature in a dystopian yet poetic landscape. The video follows a performer moving through dense, wild terrain, delving into the environment - searching, touching and attempting to communicate with the unseen. This act of seeking allegorizes the fragility of coexistence and the transience of interspecies relationships.
Scattered across the landscape are sculptural, skin-like forms made of biomaterials, reminiscent of the remains of life forms. These organic structures point to extinct or disappearing organisms and serve as haunting markers of time and the temporality of shared time frames.
The performer’s body becomes a “moving skin” that embodies the vulnerability of the present. In the interaction with the environment and the biomaterial sculptures, the video captures the tension between connection and loss, presence and absence. Moving Skins considers time, memory and transience, the fading bonds between humans and animals, and acts as a reminder of what is being lost and what could still be preserved.
This work was produced in Beatenberg (Switzerland) during and with the support of the Videocity Residency Program.
Scattered across the landscape are sculptural, skin-like forms made of biomaterials, reminiscent of the remains of life forms. These organic structures point to extinct or disappearing organisms and serve as haunting markers of time and the temporality of shared time frames.
The performer’s body becomes a “moving skin” that embodies the vulnerability of the present. In the interaction with the environment and the biomaterial sculptures, the video captures the tension between connection and loss, presence and absence. Moving Skins considers time, memory and transience, the fading bonds between humans and animals, and acts as a reminder of what is being lost and what could still be preserved.
This work was produced in Beatenberg (Switzerland) during and with the support of the Videocity Residency Program.
