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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