Falling flowers reveals fragments of landscapes invaded by joyful yet fragile floral images, conventional and functional, taken from the decorative patterns of toilet paper. Like a moving fresco, the animated digital scans of toilet paper decorations accumulate and overlap. They fall from top to bottom, until they fill the entire projection field. The video suggests a parallel between bodies and stereotypical representations of nature, thus inhabiting, colonizing, decaying, and regenerating.

 

Falling flowers layers video recordings, found footage, and amateur videos sourced from social networks, along with digital animations. It starts from a video created by extracting frames from 3D software during a failed attempt to generate a photogrammetric map of a landscape fragment. In Falling flowers, photogrammetric images - typically employed for landscape monitoring or territorial mapping - lose their effectiveness and function, becoming distorted and almost abstract. They blend with found web images of construction sites, advertisements of perfect teeth, and shuttles venturing into space. The sound evokes a distorted perception of spaces and images.

 

The work is part of a visual and conceptual research that investigates landscape and its representations as an active ideological and political value system, interrelated with economic efficiency.