Ekphrasis

Abstract

Ekphrasis is a mixed-media installation consisting of close-up videos of a heavily scarred body projected onto an elastic screen. The screen has one string attached to its centre, which is attached to a stepper motor. The motor pulls the screen in a controlled random pattern, stretching and releasing it, sometimes carefully and sometimes violently. The piece explores the relationship between the digital representation of the body and its corporeity, recreating the trauma that generated the scars on the medium itself and metaphorically recreating the human body on a new layer of representative abstraction.