FILM / INSTALLATION
Sunset/Sunrise
2025
Two-channel video installation, Mini DV and 4K with two-channel stereo sound, 9.20 mins.
—Lent et grave.
Sunset/Sunrise
(The Fairy Garden)
2025
Two-channel video installation, Mini DV and 4K with two-channel stereo sound, 9.20 mins.
—Lent et grave.
The two-channel video installation borrows a fragment from Le jardin féerique, a short piece by Maurice Ravel from the early 20th century. The original score was composed for two pairs of hands and a piano, indicating an intimacy with two bodies side by side.
The title of the piece, which means ‘The Fairy Garden’ in English, becomes a play on the English word fairy, which has been used in a derogatory way to describe homosexual men, like the Swedish word fjolla or bög. The pixelated sunset seems to be stuck in a constant twilight, in a gap in time. The absence of bodies here may signal an ‘after’, such as the aftermath of an erotic encounter or as if the casual visitor has arrived too late.