2021
Video installation
55” screens, cellphone, glass, ice block, papier-mâché Dolorosa, porcelain hands.
130 × 160 × 50 cm
Three-channel video installation. A block of ice with porcelain hands trapped inside slowly melts over one of the screens. The piece addresses childhood and the feeling of helplessness that comes from being so small in such a large world—like being trapped inside ice, unable to move. On the vertical screen, videos of an industrial welding machine—performing a kind of suture that, unlike thread on skin, is hard, hot, and aggressive—are juxtaposed with footage of the artist wearing costumes preserved from childhood. Growing up becomes an act of forcibly suturing the wounds that open in childhood. On the lower screen, images evoking abysses appear alongside animations of children’s toys.