Drawing inspiration from Andrei Tarkovski's film Nostalgia, the title Saudade is a Portuguese word, from the Latin solitas, atis. It refers to a state of nostalgia, melancholy and longing, and is considered a difficult word to translate. Saudade is a tension between opposites: on the one hand, the feeling of a lack, and on the other, the hope and desire to find what is missing. This piece questions our condition of existence, which is increasingly characterized by inconmmunicability and hostility. These texts, formatted in Chinese calligraphy, are transformed into 引魂幡, the traditional Asian mourning object used during burial ceremonies to guide ghosts to their graves.
Installation view
Garden of ENSP Arles
2023
Chinese caligraphy
Site-specific installation
2021
Various materials:
bamboo, cotton fabric, Chinese ink, raw wood, hemp rope
“
No one listened to anyone
No one listens to anyone
Everyone talks to themselves
Everyone is raving in their cages
Everyone will be annihilated by the clamor
”
“
Where am I?
If I am neither in the real nor the imaginary
”
No one listened to anyone
No one listens to anyone
Everyone talks to themselves
Everyone is raving in their cages
Everyone will be annihilated by the clamor
”
“
We are the mirror of each other
The reactions we receive Are a reflection of ourselves
”
“
Where am I?
If I am neither in the real nor the imaginary
”
Exhibition view
Festival L’été indien
Arles
2022
Exhibition view
Festival L’été indien
Arles
2022
Festival L’été indien
Arles
2022
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