Charlotte Lagro, The Beginning and Ending is Always Ambiguous, video

THE BEGINNING AND ENDING IS ALWAYS AMBIGUOUS 


Charlotte Lagro takes found objects and relieves them of their intended purpose and function to accommodate new possibilities for exchange and desire. She strips them bare, plays with them and transforms them, and makes videos about them, often inviting others to join in the process. With sleight of hand, Lagro can make heavy objects appear almost weightless. The work “The Beginning and Ending is Always Ambiguous” centers around an umbilical cable used to supply oxygen, as well as light and communication signals, to deep sea divers. From a hundred meters below, divers climb the umbilical, hand over hand, to make their way back to the surface. In water, its air-filled tubes have just the right amount of added mass to gently sink. This artificial lifeline materializes the vulnerability of human existence. And the search for the familiar in the unfamiliar with handcrafted extensions. An optimistic relic of the human endeavor to the leave the bubble.

 

2021
Video 4K, 04:44 min. Color. Sound.
Installation with umbilical cable, rubber, metal, tape, copper, nylon, 120 meter.

installations views at Jan Van Eyck Academie Open Studio ans Musée de la Boverie, Liège