Indoor Topography is a composition that draws
from the experience of lockdown during the Covid outbreak. The indoor of a
house unfolds into a strip, where fragmented episodes in different rooms coexist
autonomously. Indoor Topography’s space is a liminal one that expands
between experience, event, and emotion. Windows, actual or constructed (collaged
video clips on top of static images become conceptual windows), refer to the need
to escape the constraints of the given space. Sense comes forward through the prevailing
lack of meaning, of purpose, and of hope for a way out.
Starting from the left side of the strip, in the first room a road video
clip is collaged onto a window. The lights and shadows of the road try to tune
up with the static lines of the room. Next door another window shows the unchangeable
image of a house across the street. Right next to it another window, a
constructed one, is in fact the multiplication of vision of the same thing: a
desk, a bottle, a plant, a window in the background. In the adjacent room a video
clip of a hand examines a tiny blob blood from different angles. This is
collaged onto an image of the sunset over the roofs of houses. At times a dim reproduction
of the image of the sunset reflects on the bathroom wall next door. In the bathroom,
the last room of the strip, on top of the shower curtain a clip from another
room shows a figure coming and going, trying to jump out of the constraints of
its box.
