REVERTERE AD LOCUM TUUM (3'10”)
video with sound (2020)
Immersive experience: video to be displayed inside a telephone box
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About the video: it was conceived during the pandemic and to be displayed inside a phone booth at the countryside of Scotland. My main motivation was the constricted space, for the screening and for the viewer. I also took in consideration it would be shown in a small town, with no subway system. The idea was centred on displacement. I felt we were so stagnated inside our own homes, alone... I was longing to move fast, to be in a crowded place, to loose the focus on my window view. I browsed my files for the busiest subway trip I could recall to experience… Tokyo. I gradually removed the humans from the frame as we moved between stations, enhanced the colours, trying to replicate that suspended time sensation as we have being locked down at home for so long. (6 months now)
It would preferably be shown in loop so that we never arrive, to be constantly on the move.
I wanted the sound to be a thick bass pace that would mark the mechanical rhythm of displacement, or its absence. I also wanted to be reminded of a heart beat to be felt inside the cabin.
The inscription 'Revertere Ad Locum Tuum' is usually engraved on cemetery entrance gates. It means in Latin: “return to the place of origin”. This always caught my attention, and like a bad joke, I wondered who the message was addressed to. Here I borrow it for the title without any funeral intent, just because the subway trip will go back and forward endlessly…
