This is a variation on the video series Virtuoso Holiday Reflection (2019). Manipulating space as much as manipulating time, a looping zoom-out suggests that, long time after she came back "home", a traveler might still be on vacation, stuck in a cruise ship, while trying to recall her memories of the vacation in question. This bottomless world enfolding within itself addresses the voidness of a fantasized travel place. It is a trip to nowhere that she is referring to. A trip to no place, but to a laminated picture.

Holiday Reflection: A Big Picture (2019)

In this split-screen POV360 video, a persona goes on a skating ride in her childhood town she left long ago. Skating around in circles on the ice, she shares memories, feelings and hopes in a non-linear, oniric, haptic and vertiginous way. Eyes May Be Made of Ice and Bubbles brings into contrast the complexity of the empirical experience with that of the only observed/surveilled experience to question the linearity of the temporal conceptualization peculiar to the West and its tendency to be reassured only by vision, or by the idea that "one has to see it to believe it".

(French)
Dans cette vidéo POV360 à écran divisé, un persona fait une promenade de patinage dans la ville de son enfance qu’elle a quittée depuis longtemps. Tournant en rond sur la glace, elle partage des mémoires, des sentiments et des espoirs de manière non linéaire, onirique, haptique et vertigineuse. Eyes May Be Made of Ice and Bubbles oppose la complexité d’une expérience empirique avec celle d’une expérience uniquement observée/surveillée pour remettre en question la linéarité de la conceptualisation temporelle propre à l’Occident et sa tendance à uniquement se rassurer par la vision, ou par l’idée “qu’il faut le voir pour le croire”.

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