LOAD DISPLACEMENT 

2012
Installation with a video and two dissolving slide projections
variable dimension
dur: 14'25"

Load displacement is the total  weight of a cargo vessel when loaded to the extent for which it was designed. 

The installation consists of a video and two dissolving slide projections.
The 15 minute long video was shot in a small harbour in Lampedusa, an Italian island well known as a preferred crossing point from Libya into Europe. It shows overnight port activities including ships leaving and landing along with scenes of more than one hundred Tunisian people disembarking from a coastguard vessel, while an amusement park carousel rotates near by. These people are only a few of the thousands of North Africans who face the dangerous Mediterranean Sea in search for job opportunities in Europe. 
The 35 mm slide projections are all quotes taken from the following authors: T.W.Adorno-M.Horkheimer, B.Brecht,  H.F.Dahms, R.Ellison, D.Harvey, Homer, International Organization for Migration, K.Marx, H.Melville, G.Stein, D.Walcott, W.Whitman.

Though not synchronized, the images and texts invite the viewer to create connections between the two of them. 

EXHIBITIONS:

The Ocean After Nature

Living Together Is Easy

In Plain Sight

Shifting Gazes

Load Displacement, 2012, single channel video version