Out of sight
2020
HD video, sound, 16’53”
Out of Sight takes as its starting point the geological chronology of a volcanic rock from Egypt's Black Desert. This rock is the trace of a knowledge invisible at first sight: this desert is an ancient sea.
The video looks at the various cardinal points of these contemporary landscapes, in conversation with expert Dr. Giovanni Bertotti, Professor at the Department of Applied Geology, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of Technology. From the Earth's geological evolution to global warming, from the desertification of the Mediterranean basin to its future disappearance, we witness a conversation in which temporality and decadence transform our terrestrial perspectives.
The video looks at the various cardinal points of these contemporary landscapes, in conversation with expert Dr. Giovanni Bertotti, Professor at the Department of Applied Geology, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of Technology. From the Earth's geological evolution to global warming, from the desertification of the Mediterranean basin to its future disappearance, we witness a conversation in which temporality and decadence transform our terrestrial perspectives.
On a single plane, 3D scans of volcanic rocks from the Egyptian black desert are assembled. Based on the principle of chronophotography, the movement is only activated when viewed by a visitor. The production of these intermediate representations - neither real rocks, nor virtual scans - makes it possible to integrate these photographic rock samples into a kinematic space, where the sequence, borrowing from the “contact sheet”, provides the impetus for movement.
