rED OCEAN 红海

2023, Expanded-cinema Installation with Mixed Media Sculpture

Installation View at Exhibition We Sink and Settle on the Waves, Zurich, 2023. Copyright the Artist

Red Ocean is an immersive audio-visual installation that mourns whales which fall victims to human capture at sea and a suffocating romantic relationship. A sonic-visual collage and a piece of expanded cinema, Red Ocean weaves together the haunting sounds of a hunter-killer whale song with archival footages of massacres at sea, interlaced with the poetic testimony of an anonymous young woman. The film is only seen through refractions projected onto a central sculptural piece composed of shattered mirror shards.

Visitors were invited to step inside the installation so to inhabit the film as an eco-feminist space of distortion, resonance, and reflection.

Director: Zhilin Xu

Composers: Deng Ke and Lidi Xu

Editors: Deng Ke and Zhilin Xu

Performance: Lidi Xu and Zhilin Xu

Photography: Rafael Cordeiro

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