DISSOLUTION (2022)
“Dissolution features a narrator who seems to have been forcibly removed from a glamorous, hedonistic life and trapped—as pure dematerialized consciousness—inside a strange and somewhat sinister digital realm. Dissolution is projected on a holographic display, viewable in the round, as an endlessly looping twenty-minute film whose acerbic narrator, Vox, mulls over questions of cultural value, political efficacy, and the utility of art in our technologically mediated era. Provocative and withering by turns, Vox's soliloquy hopscotches from a description of the Classical sculpture Laocoön and His Sons to a vivid image of an octopus mining cryptocurrency through its tentacles to fantasias of violent encounters in a contemporary art museum.”
Dissolution premiered at the Jeu de Paume, Paris, in 2022, and at the Museum of the Moving Image, New York, in 2023