Drift
Video Art, Sculpture project
2017
Drift from Bianca Boragi on Vimeo.
Stills from video:
Drift includes a video, two sculptures and one painting (forthcoming). All materials have been collected in Southern Utah and Salt Lake City, Utah. I was drawn to capture the pastel palette of this place, which I perceived as prehistoric but also a somehow post-apocalyptic landscape; these characterizations would be developed in this body of work, exploring simultaneously history, the static present, and an apocalyptic future, all of which may in fact be the same moment. This new body of work will offer a reflection on our cultural moment from a meditative and ancient vantage.
Shot in the 170 million year old valleys in southern Utah, these rocks have been shaped by the natural process of erosion. This video depicts an alien landscape slowly spinning, touching upon notions of time, history, and environment.
Drift contemplates notions of permanence and finitude. What will outgrow us? With the recent controversy related to the opening up of public lands for oil and gas extraction in formerly protected land, I am questioning the political agenda as a means to meditate on environmental issues and American consumerism developed in essays such as Learning How to Die in the Anthropocene by Roy Scranton and The Ecological Thought by Timothy Morton.
Shot in the 170 million year old valleys in southern Utah, these rocks have been shaped by the natural process of erosion. This video depicts an alien landscape slowly spinning, touching upon notions of time, history, and environment.
Drift contemplates notions of permanence and finitude. What will outgrow us? With the recent controversy related to the opening up of public lands for oil and gas extraction in formerly protected land, I am questioning the political agenda as a means to meditate on environmental issues and American consumerism developed in essays such as Learning How to Die in the Anthropocene by Roy Scranton and The Ecological Thought by Timothy Morton.