work
Nettuno: Birth of A Shell
| category | Video |
| subject | Political / Social, Human figure |
| tags | password film: nettunobirth23 |
| minutes | 7 |
| seconds | 42 |
| year | 2023 |
Neptune: Birth of a Shell (2023) is an experimental 16mm digital film that incorporates elements of cinéma vérité, documentary practice, scientific research, and theatre. The film seeks to articulate the idea of queerness as something connected to a post-human utopia, capable of disrupting a crystallized notion of the human condition in favor of the possibility of generating new identities.
“The body is merely a shell to be abandoned for a new one; when the inner self feels constrained by social, gendered, temporal, and spatial limitations.”
These words express the meaning of the element referenced in the title of the work: the shell.
Drawing inspiration from the writings of Paul Valéry (L’Homme et la Coquille) and José Esteban Muñoz (Cruising Utopia), the artist employs this creature as a metaphor for Neptune’s body, proposing an interspecies reflection.
Originating from the mollusk, the shell becomes an ideal interpretation of a body in a constant state of transformation and metamorphosis. The work thus embodies the eternal potential of reconfiguration.
Neptune: Birth of a Shell, 2023, 16mm film, AI, 4:3 – edition of 2/5.
“The body is merely a shell to be abandoned for a new one; when the inner self feels constrained by social, gendered, temporal, and spatial limitations.”
These words express the meaning of the element referenced in the title of the work: the shell.
Drawing inspiration from the writings of Paul Valéry (L’Homme et la Coquille) and José Esteban Muñoz (Cruising Utopia), the artist employs this creature as a metaphor for Neptune’s body, proposing an interspecies reflection.
Originating from the mollusk, the shell becomes an ideal interpretation of a body in a constant state of transformation and metamorphosis. The work thus embodies the eternal potential of reconfiguration.
Neptune: Birth of a Shell, 2023, 16mm film, AI, 4:3 – edition of 2/5.
