Rubber Room/ I AM A FORCE OF THE PAST
2024
3 channel video, 4K video on monitors, media players, speakers, tv stand
Dimensions variable
6 minutes and 58 seconds
In Rubber Room/ I AM A FORCE OF THE PAST, I use a family heirloom: a steamer trunk painted by Norwegian painter Lars Hertervig. Hertervig is known for his semi-fantastical landscapes created after his discharge from Gaustad Hospital, where he was treated for psychosis at the age of 26. The trunk, adorned in a faux sealskin pattern during Hertervig’s later years, becomes a symbol of inherited narratives and personal history, a detail often recounted during CCA’s childhood and immortalized in Jon Fosse’s novels “Melancholy I-II.”
Rubber Room/ I AM A FORCE OF THE PAST comprises three monitors. Two display CGI stage lights directed at a central screen, which features a CGI character whose head is formed from a 3D scan of the steamer trunk. In the video, the figure lip-syncs to Porter Wagoner’s “Rubber Room” and mimics sweeping, mopping, and carrying a cross, while reciting Pier Paolo Pasolini’s poem “IO SONO UNA FORZA DEL PASSATO” (“I AM A FORCE OF THE PAST”). Through this interplay of actions and recitations, I am interested in the cultural fetishization of pathologies, examining their connection to the myth of the tormented artist within the context of familial narratives and embedded traumas in objects and language.
Installation views from
Who Do You Think They’re Fooling: You?
Essex Flowers, New York New York
June 28 - July 28, 2024
2024
3 channel video, 4K video on monitors, media players, speakers, tv stand
Dimensions variable
6 minutes and 58 seconds
In Rubber Room/ I AM A FORCE OF THE PAST, I use a family heirloom: a steamer trunk painted by Norwegian painter Lars Hertervig. Hertervig is known for his semi-fantastical landscapes created after his discharge from Gaustad Hospital, where he was treated for psychosis at the age of 26. The trunk, adorned in a faux sealskin pattern during Hertervig’s later years, becomes a symbol of inherited narratives and personal history, a detail often recounted during CCA’s childhood and immortalized in Jon Fosse’s novels “Melancholy I-II.”
Rubber Room/ I AM A FORCE OF THE PAST comprises three monitors. Two display CGI stage lights directed at a central screen, which features a CGI character whose head is formed from a 3D scan of the steamer trunk. In the video, the figure lip-syncs to Porter Wagoner’s “Rubber Room” and mimics sweeping, mopping, and carrying a cross, while reciting Pier Paolo Pasolini’s poem “IO SONO UNA FORZA DEL PASSATO” (“I AM A FORCE OF THE PAST”). Through this interplay of actions and recitations, I am interested in the cultural fetishization of pathologies, examining their connection to the myth of the tormented artist within the context of familial narratives and embedded traumas in objects and language.
Installation views from
Who Do You Think They’re Fooling: You?
Essex Flowers, New York New York
June 28 - July 28, 2024