INLAND I
Channel: ANALIA SEGAL STUDIO
Date: 2021-11-11

Inland I, video animation, 2014/18 – 
HD – vertical projection, single channel.
This work speaks about the ideal of homeownership as the ethos of the "American dream" and simultaneously the split of one’s identity that occurs when you move into a new culture. The morphing, warping, softening, and liquefying images of a mini-blind, wood paneling and wallpaper introduce a sense of impermanence in the architecture while turning it into a metaphor for the ambiguity and fluctuation of the immigrant experience. These mutations also reaffirm the concept of “otherness” in the work. The audio combines fragments of the iconic phrases of the “Three Little Pigs” recited in English, a selection of words and phrases in Spanish from self-help books, moaning and groaning sounds, and household noises. I believe this fairy tale encapsulates the idea of the house as the symbol of man’s progress, hope, opportunity, security, wellbeing, and consummate achievement.

Trilogy was exhibited at solo exhibition “contra la pared” at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art. Ridgefield, Connecticut - US (2018)