Untitled (dittico) is composed of two videos: an amateur memory-video recorded on a phone during a wedding ceremony and shared on the participants’ WhatsApp group; footage from the documentation and monitoring of a cattle farm, digitized from a partially demagnetized VHS tape.

The two videos are zoomed and cut. The work focuses on two residual and marginal details: the repetitive and instinctual movement of the cows’ ears at various moments in the documentation; the rhythmic motion of the fans held by the wedding guests, which takes up space between the ritual actions prescribed by the ceremony.

The unstable materialities of the videos themselves — the poor digital image, the degraded VHS —  enter into dialogue with the nervous bodily movements. What appears is an organic matter that the representation had not anticipated.

An endless loop of gestures without a meaning sabotages the documentary function of the image. What remains is not the event the video sought to preserve, but what accidentally fails to coincide with it. 

A correspondence emerges between the circulation of amateur videos and monitoring footage of productive systems, and between bodies organized by social rituals and by functional devices.