SÍSIFO /SISYPHUS (2015–2016)

Videoart installation in collaboration with Brazilian artist Néle Azevedo.

Sisyphus is a video installation inspired by Albert Camus' Myth of Sisyphus - a philosophical essay on the Absurd. Anthropomorphic ice sculptures melt and pulsate in a continuous process of reconstruction - appearing and disappearing - set to the sound of a heartbeat and breathing. The visual source is the urban intervention work by Néle Azevedo Monumento Mínimo (Minimum Monument), recorded at the Municipal Theatre in São Paulo.

Sisyphus is conceptualized to be video-projected onto a curtain of steam whose support gives it a singularity in the interpretation of the Sisyphus myth – divested of the materiality of stone and earth, Sisyphus gains ephemeral dematerialization. He goes through the three stages of the water element – solid: ice, liquid: melting, and gaseous state: vapor. This effect can also be attained by projecting the video onto layered voile sheets and a fog-machine with timed programming.

Video Documentation of video installation at Espaço Vitrine, São Paulo. 2016.

Video source for installation: a 3-min. videoart piece played in loop.