Spiral Forest Gimbal (kingdom of all the animals and all the beasts is my name), 2014–2015

Custom-made Gimbal camera, 16 mm film

11:00 min duration

The camera’s motor both transports the film and powers its rotations. In addition to this nod to structuralist practice of filmmaking—making the workings of the apparatus an integral component of the work—on occasion, the film shows its own tripod and parts of its gimbals.

Systemic Grid 61-a (Puddle 4), 2015 (floor)

Mirrored-finish, polished stainless steel

In combination with the overall shape, which recalls that of a liquid puddle, the linear pattern destabilizes the distinction between fluidity and rigidity. The shape, a rectangle from which one corner has been removed (in effect a square with a triangle), creates layers of geometric patterns.

Spiral Forest (1-11), 2015 (detail; wall)

6 Fiber-based gelatin silver prints, 5 analog C-prints

This body of work draws on the notion of Amerindian Perspectivism, a term developed by the anthropologist Eduardo Viveiros de Castro to describe indigenous cosmologies that assume the world to be inhabited by different beings, animal and human animal, who perceive reality from distinct points of view of which none is privileged.

Photo © Andrea Rossetti