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SILENT BODIES SILENT SELVES

video, Lisboa, 2016

“MY BODY IS MADE OF THE SAME FLESH AS THE WORLD.” — MAURICE MERLEAU-PONTY

“MY BODY IS MADE OF THE SAME FLESH AS THE WORLD.” — MAURICE MERLEAU-PONTY

CONCEPT / CAMERA / SOUND: Jelena Pavlović

PUBLIC SCREENINGS
Oxygen festival, Rome, 2016
It's Liquid Festival, Rome, 2016
It's Liquid Festival, Buenos Aires, 2017

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Light touches the surface slowly.

The sheets retain the impression of weight.

 

​The frame approaches intimacy — almost intrusion. Drawing from Helen Westgeest’s notion of the spectator as an “accidental witness,” the work foregrounds the cinematic apparatus and the embodied presence of the viewer. ​

 

Almost a skin — a membrane, a perceptual threshold — the screen mediates between the moving image and the viewer in a slow dissolution of the voyeuristic gaze. The spectator occupies the perceptual space on the other side of the frame, where the image seems to precede memory.

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