VINYJI
Installation silence revolt
MUTE (MUET)
VIDEO HD 1920X1080 7’44 LOOP 2020.
There is an irreversible division from which the speaking subject definitely separates from reality and alienates himself in the order of language.
This division that leads us to be a prisoner by transforming our relation to reality.
Thus, to return to our true nature, to our original state, to our reality, we would have to dissolve our language.
A person remains motionless in a bare space, in the wind.
Video that translates a positioning, facing the world, in the form of a motionless rebellion. Facing the small and large movements to come.
Become the silence.
WHEN PEOPLE ASK ME HOW I FEEL
Video, HD 1920x1080, loop, 2021.
Human fragility, capturing a moment of suspended poetry.
Installation description
Mute (2020, 7'44") is a looping video-performance projected onto a wall at the largest feasible scale, ideally around three metres wide, so that the image can approach or exceed the viewer’s own height. The work presents an immobile, silent body within landscapes, creating a tension between stillness and the world surrounding it. Alongside it, When People Ask Me How I Feel, loops on a small mobile phone, where the fragile presence of a bird invites a more intimate encounter. Presented simultaneously, the two works form a single installation, bringing together the human body and the vulnerability of the living world through contrasting scales of attention.
Created in 2020, just before the Covid-19 pandemic, Mute emerged from an urgency to question our position in the world and the ways we think, act and connect with our environment. Through silence and immobility, the work invites us to pause, shift our focus and deconstruct the systems of thought that shape our perception of reality.
Presented alongside When People Ask Me How I Feel, featuring the fragile presence of a small bird, the installation brings together two expressions of vulnerability. Both works speak of a world whose fragility we continue to overlook, and of an ecosystem threatened by our persistent patterns of destruction.
The pandemic briefly imposed a collective pause, yet we have largely returned to the same destructive course. Today, these two videos become a statement and an act of resistance. Their silence and fragility are not signs of passivity, but forms of address that demand attention.
I believe there can be no future without a conscious and active engagement with the present. The installation calls for a pause, not as an escape, but as the beginning of change. My work creates a rupture in habitual perception, reclaiming the present as the ground from which a more conscious future can emerge.