Chiara Caterina
The Afterimage - Installation - 2018
presented as part of the exhibition Panorama 20
Installation
*I looked, I found
I saw faces, intense colours, distant geographies, known landscapes and involuntary photos, interrupted gestures and movements, other periods, families reunited, parties, celebrations, lunches, dinners, empty glasses, dust and disorder, mountains, beaches and rivers, tombs, cemeteries and cascades, skyscrapers, boats out to sea, black smoke, white smoke, packed cities, deserted peripheries, fields, flowers, water and sand, knowing looks, embarrassed looks, poses, ancient streets and monuments, dogs, cats, giraffes, ostriches, cows and lions, imagined histories.
I saw lives on a screen.
I saw ten screens.
I asked the machine, the guts of the network, and I got answers in return. Answers from other universes in this same universe. I put the past in the present and I had all the time I needed to lose myself.
In return I had words, sounds, other images.
I had what I have never known.
I let myself drift away, I got lost.
I used tracks to find other tracks.
The afterimage, is the image that’s left.
This is what it will become. *
Chiara Caterina
After studying the history of cinema at Rome University and training as a camerawoman, Chiara Caterina is currently on a post-diploma course at Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains. Her short film Avant la nuit and her medium-length film Il mondo o niente have been shown at several international festivals. She is interested mainly in the exploration of non-fiction cinema and documentary practices.
Production
Acknowledgments
Christophe Gregório, Sébastien Cabour, Antoine Barlet, Cyprien Quairiat, Julie Machin and the marvellous Installation unit: Antoine Barlet, Olivier Anselot, Boris Rogez, Estelle Benazet, Éric Prigent, Daniel Dobbels, Madeleine Van Doren, Valérie Delhaye, Pascal Buteaux, Luc-Jérôme Bailleul.
