We Have Never Been Alone
Single-channel colour video, stereo sound.
10’ 09”
2019-2021.
It was presented at Floating I, at In.plano in Paris, in 2021-2022.
“We Have Never Been Alone” is a video essay inspired by Scott Gilbert’s text “A Symbiotic View of Life: We Have Never Been Individuals” and the long-term observation of the transformation of São João do Rio Vermelho regional park in Santa Catarina, Brazil. Since the end of the 19th century, the Atlantic Forest (Mata Atlântica) has been shaped to become a pine forest (with conifers that are not native to this latitude). Now, these spaces “split” by humans are “contaminated”, and native vegetation is making its way among the forest imposed on the territory. This video invites the audience to discover and recognise themselves among other forms of life, trying to blur the boundaries established by human exceptionalism and to understand other symbiotic possibilities with changes. It is a narrative experience that seeks to diffract thought in relation to the image.
We will change through storytelling.
