In Until nothing can reach us, three screened videos are placed side by side to create one large picture, one panoramic image of 9 meters long by 2 meters high and are projected simultaneously on the same wall showing a succession of sequences connected to each other. These present a woman character and her body-double, who are performing several actions. Other sequences show some overhanging views of the city. All the images have been filmed at dusk in a penthouse in Rotterdam. All the actions and the perspectives of the city evoke the notion of void, vertigo and lack (physical as well as psychological) and question the idea of stamina and training. The series, the alternation and the collage of the three projections building one large picture increase those ideas and notions as well as the schizophrenia of the character.
In this research I try to define and develop a space, a virtual landscape waving between reality and fiction, between the performance and its cinematographic narrative, containing in the same time a physical and mental approach.
The sound accompanying the images is a so-called “dead sound”, vibrating and revolving constantly in the space. It evokes simultaneously the life of a city, its physicality and the pressure of the blood in the head, the abstraction of a cerebral activity.

This project constitutes the third and final part of a body of work, started two years ago, completing the installations Training Lounge and Reflecting Home.

Installation view at Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam

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