Phasmides, 2012
16 mm film transferred to HD video, color, mute
For this work, the artist built a habitat with geometric shapes and twigs in which stick insects were camouflaged. Over the course of the film, a shift occurred, and the living bodies of the insects that had seemed inanimate were revealed as animate, while the inanimate shapes had become imbued with latent movement. The branches, insects and geometric shapes created a tableaux vivant that emphasized the arbitrariness of the distinction made between organic and man-made forms.
Photo © Andrea Rossetti