bubble bubble

When Bubble was presented to the public for the first time, the audience kept asking what was actually shown on film. What thing from the real world could take such bizarre forms and behave so unusually? Although the video shown at the joint exhibition was a curatorial intervention of mine, I didn't know the answer. I later asked the author about it, though I personally wasn't really interested. Her answer explained little, but ultimately convinced me that the material background had little relevance for the whole story. The Bubble video, although filmed by video camera, has no intention of presenting the real world. It uses the referential object only as a building block of a visual language, further transforming it through animation logic. There it lives on in a newly constructed world of its own. But it remains a world of reality that doesn't take the viewer away to a land of nothing but fantasy. Bubble is actually a pet name of the unusual being that appears on screen. Its presence is always uncertain. It's moving, pulsating, appearing and disappearing, always unstable, just like the lives of creatures that we are familiar with from earthly experience. Its body is firm and reminiscent more of the tissues of aquatic organisms than of a soap bubble. It manifests itself as a stranger, a gentle and peaceful stranger, although we know nothing of its intentions. It remains unknown. It tells us about the depths of either the ocean or the universe, never revealing much about ...