Where Is My Mind?
Video Installation
Description
(Part of the projects “I Stared at Beauty So Much” and “Museum Melancholy”)
“Where Is My Mind?” is a video animation composed of several synchronized projections and based on images taken from various archaeological museums. Ancient statues—some headless, others bearing their heads but with untraceable bodies— move forward, haunted by the poetry of George Seferis:
“They told us you’ll conquer when you surrender.
We surrendered and found ashes.
They told us you’ll conquer when you love.
We loved and found ashes.
They told us you’ll conquer when you abandon your life.
We abandoned our life and found ashes.
We found ashes.
What remains is to rediscover our life, now that we have nothing left.”
This mysterious procession of heroines or fallen heroes—figures who have lost their singularity—raises questions about our identity at a time when we feel increasingly captive to data and code, which may threaten our ability to act and dream freely, politically, and poetically.
Year Created: 2020
Country: Lebanon / France
Medium: Video Installation, 3 HD videos synchronized
* The work is presented within the framework of the European Digital Deal project, co-funded by the European Union’s “Creative Europe” program.
We would like to thank Ikaros Publishing for their kind permission to use an excerpt from the poem “Man” by Giorgos Seferis.
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