The Eclipsed Ones
Colour video, single-channel
Stereo sound
3’58”
2020
As part of Manifèste Anthropocène, led virtually by Jérémy Cheval, director of studies at the École Urbaine de Lyon (a multidisciplinary research project focused on the urban Anthropocene), I was invited to propose a video work. The year 2020 was marked by numerous eclipses, beyond even the pandemic. The text is spoken by a voice that seems somewhat extraterrestrial, even non-human, which manifests itself around populations displaced for environmental causes. Total solar eclipses occurred in December 2019 and June 2020, and a penumbral lunar eclipse occurred in July 2020. These astronomical phenomena influenced my video work by creating a cosmic and mysterious context for the voice that tells the story of these populations.