HD video, 4:51
Realized in San Francisco, USA, 2011
My work is in many cases a
reflection of actual: what I read and what I see in newspapers, internet and
television. The 90% of human catastrophes, natural disasters, political
scandals turned into my almost everyday doping - a resource for false feeling
of being present, being THERE.
The death of human somewhere
in between of the lines becomes banal in the multitude of cases. But if the
report about that death would not be spoken out loudly, would it be better? I
decided to create this work about it, referencing specially the cases of
illegal immigrants risking death trying to cross the sea dividing Africa and
Europe on fragile boats.
In this work I translated the
situation of worldwide news into one simplified equation: If the power of words
can save a man, then I can build a boat from newspaper and sail through the
sea.
