(2013) SÍSIFO /SISYPHUS
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. Sísifo 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.
