Duration: 10:03
Video Installation
Vestige is an imagined shrine from the future, remembering of the extinct cratures of past times. The mysterious leggendary flying animals called birds.
We live in times of continued disaster, climate change is perceptible in everyday existence, it's time to embrace multispecies coexistence and learn how to live and die in harmony.
The work was inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegy, especially the Eighth Elegy and by the film Blade Runner. Both the poem and the film question our relations to the natural world. Rilke's poem points towards the ways in which we placed outselves outside of life and the effects of this attitude on out psyche, while the film and especially the Phillip K. Dick book (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep) focuses on the consequences of human actions, mainly the mass extinction of life forms, The below quote from the film seems very pertinent for the piece and the times we live in.
Rachael: Do you like our owl?
Deckard: Is it artificial?
Rachael: Of Course it is.
Deckard: Must be expensive.
Rachael: Very.