For the White Walls cycle I chose a blank wall as a shared signature element closing several stop-motion videos and as a metaphor for an increasingly widespread state of anxiety in the Anthropocene. This manifests in those suffering from eco-anxiety and its resulting disorders, ranging from depression and resignation to the inevitable (or eco-paralysis) and apathy, up to PTSD. Color psychology defines the impact of entirely white walls on our psyche as uncanny and destabilizing, since reassuring visual coordinates are lacking.
The videos address the perception of a present spiraling out of control, examining several of its critical aspects through an ironic-surreal expressiveness. The choice of black and white and the haptic quality of the techniques employed evoke the 1960s and the dawn of the environmental crisis.
To create the soundscape, I defragmented and reassembled field recordings captured in public spaces, generating alienating audio sequences. Presented as infinite loops, the videos run for approximately one minute to bypass any logical-narrative perception and amplify their surreal dimension.
White Walls / Perspective Change
4K UHD (16:9) B&W, sound
01:04 (looping)
Stop-motion animation with décollage of pastel drawings on black kraft paper roll and acrylic marker caricatures on newspaper articles.
The video compares the differing interactions that adults and children have with nature, counterposing the child's egalitarian-inclusive approach - expressed through an integrative, zenithal perspective - against the adult world's predatory and instrumental relationship, represented through a frontal, dichotomous graphic perspective.
Animazione in stop-motion con décollage di disegni a pastello su carta da pacchi nera e caricature in pennarello acrilico su articoli di giornale.
Il video confronta la diversa interazione che adulti e bambini hanno con la natura, contrapponendo l'approccio paritario-inclusivo dell'infanzia, espresso attraverso una prospettiva zenitale integrativa, al rapporto predatorio strumentale del mondo adulto, rappresentato da una prospettiva grafica frontale e dicotomica.
