In Search of the Road to Nevers
Digital stereoscopic 3D video, total length: 5:00 minutes, looped when installed,
variable dimensions, color, silent, 2017
The video work "In Search of the Road to Nevers" references Nevers, as recollected by the heroine in the film "Hiroshima mon, Amour" (1959, Alain Resnais and Marguerite Duras). In this film, the heroine, who is a French actress, describes to her Japanese lover the tragedy of a past love in Nevers. The focus of "Hiroshima mon, Amour" is on recollections, and the intertwining of past and present, as well as the associations and new associations created and recreated through recollection.
"In Search of the Road to Nevers" is a journey through a constructed landscape. The video is created through the superimposition of four separate landscapes to create a landscape that perhaps exists only in memory. I consider the aspect of superimposition to function much like memory, in that memory allows for spaces from different places to come together as recollected place. In this journey, movement reveals itself to be ongoing and continuous, a forever search that doesn't move towards resolution.