The Ocean's Breath was Salty

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2017

CGI Film

2ch HD video  |  1ch HD sound

4'30''

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Documentation credit: The Collection

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Referencing video game interplay, the audience embody a user who is able to navigate and manipulate virtual reality; an unstable space that can be moulded depending on its required function. Virtual forces of gravity and resistance become malleable, allowing the user to manoeuvre and shape a digital reconstruction of the real for their own viewing pleasure. However, this promise of interaction is denied to the audience. Instead, the reference to video games as a narrative model becomes a method of reconstructing the lived traumas of the body within a controlled simulation, one that the audience is then guided through.

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Interested in the uncanny digital translation of natural forms and textures, the work centres on the interpretation of water. Often converting into a heightened blue and surging in a fantastical manner, it feels familiar, yet is removed of all imperfection. I was interested in exposing the layers of construction of this hyperreal aesthetic, disrupting and unravelling them as a method of disturbing the faith that is held in the facade of the digital screen.