de près ou de loin 咫尺天涯
30:00 / audio-visual performance / 2020 / USA
The world that used to be near us suddenly becomes almost unreachable and surreal. de près ou de loin 咫尺天涯 looks at and listens to a small slice of our world, with the hunch that something else is there. This work was made under the force of social distancing due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The condition of inaccessibility abetted a posture of looking out the window for a long period of time. It also allowed us to sense the incalculable distance between individual reality and the virtual world.
Artist Statement:
In times when a world visibly changes, we become especially conscious of previously unseen aspects of that world, and perhaps of the infinite number of worlds that exist and that could exist. They might be far away (at the conceptual borders of the universe) or extremely close (even in the interstices of our own bodies). They can be visible or invisible. That which is nearby, but which also feels foreign is especially unsettling.
