Dancing Grains II, 2015
Video. 02’ 09’’ Loop
Made with the kindly support of Moving Image Studios at Royal College of Art, London
While two strategically placed cameras framed the action of pouring dust from one glass into another (Dancing Grains I), a third off-action camera captured the presence of the micro and fluctuating particles of dust that escaped from the glasses and dispersed throughout the studio space.
The title, Dancing Grains (‘which are not made to be seen’), is drawn from a text in which Gilles Deleuze – describing the work of French filmmaker Philippe Garrel – points to the importance of a different mode of presence in modern cinema. A cinema, writes, Deleuze, in which ‘the problem is not that of a presence of bodies, but that of a belief which is capable of restoring the world and the body to us on the basis of what signifies their absence’.