Remember the Light

Remember the Light, 2016
Part 2 of I Stared At Beauty So Much project
Color, 2 HD videos, 8min

 

Unexpected phenomena happen underwater. The perception of colours changes: as depth increases, the light spectrum narrows and colours vanish one after the other. Red is the first to disappear, followed by orange, yellow, green, and blue, until everything fades to black. Yet if the dark seabed is illuminated, plankton remembers the light and refracts its luminescence.

Experimenting with the sensorial experience of underwater exploration, the artists film five actors-divers, each dressed in distinct colours sinking as deep as possible, echoing the perilous journeys of migrants crossing the Mediterranean. A colourful scarf also drifts downward. The dives reveal a mysterious underwater landscape: ruins, sunken buried memories of war, remains of cities, long consigned to oblivion. Other temporalities inhabit the abyss.