Visual Effects
O fim da Guerra Fria não provocou um degelo definitivo nas antigas repúblicas da União Soviética, de modo que hoje existem vários conflitos congelados, não resolvidos durante décadas, naquele vasto território. Como na Transnístria, um Estado não reconhecido, se separou da Moldávia desde 1990. Kolja é uma testemunha silenciosa de como as fronteiras e a burocracia moldam a vida dos cidadãos, finalmente forçados a perder sua identidade.
Compositor
Holding in her mind Dorothea Tanning’s painting Some Roses and their Phantoms (1952) and its sickening presentation of objects as between states of being, Wardill made a film that also hovers between definitions. The architecture of the Gulbenkian auditorium in Lisbon, its colors and sense of being lost in time accompany us through a loop where a man wanders the building at night, followed by something that is not human. Through the care and paranoia with which she approaches the digital image, the artist investigates the past’s haunting of the present and the remnants of textures longing to be touched. Wardill’s work takes an interest in the appropriation of models to express ideas and the way in which fixed scenarios become exemplary. She explores the opacity of communication to deconstruct the way in which materials or the implication of the material are used to elucidate ideas.
