HOME | Dark Self
video installation
oil on PVC and plexi glass
350x500x210cm
The installation HOME | Dark Self forms an imaginary house, a place of habitation that emerges through light. It consists of a video projection and painting on transparent surfaces, where the slightest dislocation of the projection in space creates the façade of an archetypal house with a roof. In this way, a house made of light is formed, a shell of a house constructed through minimal gesture, bodily and solar energy.
The central axis of the work is the concept of energy, light, and minimal gesture: a small shift, a subtle intervention capable of activating light and producing space, constructing image and meaning. Following the approach of Le Corbusier, light helps us perceive space, by defining architecture through light, it becomes an element capable not only of affecting matter but also of shaping it.
In the video, matter produces reflections through the energy of nature combined with minimal gesture. The materials, nylon and plexiglass, act as carriers of refraction, making visible the interaction of solar and bodily energy with matter. In the video, sunlight activates the materials and, combined with the gesture of shifting the projection, creates a house of light as the primary place where someone feels safe.
Signs of habitation, such as the door and windows, emerge through black, meditative painting on transparent materials. By painting directly with the hands onto the surfaces, the energy of the body is imprinted through gesture, leaving colour as a trace of presence.
Painting functions as a counterpoint to transparency: it conceals, deepens, and densifies the surface, creating a dark substrate that awaits the penetration of light. Thus, the work unfolds as a dynamic condition between light and shadow, presence and absence, construction and deconstruction of space.
The work, as a study in creativity, explores the potential of humble materials to construct complex experiences through light. Through energy, refraction, and permeability, immaterial, almost non-worldly spaces are formed between the visible and invisible, the material and immaterial, the sensory and the conceptual world.
HOME | Dark Self, video installation, oil on PVC and plexiglass, 350x500x150cm
Video HOME | Dark Self