Lament represents an audiovisual project developed as a short experimental artistic film in the form of a video work combined with performance, thereby achieving a dramatic effect. The narrative is presented in the form of a triptych, as the trinity is an adopted universal principle by which we divide each chapter within ourselves. Adhering to the division related to the historical roles of women, adopted from Simone de Beauvoir’s work The Second Sex, we subliminate and arrive at a new division —- a personal division meant to display the simplified essential form of one being, or the facets of one woman.
Calling upon inspiration, the creation of artifacts and magical objects takes place, which will invoke specific types of feelings as catalysts for the action. Using classical techniques from traditional visual arts —- sculpture, painting, and modeling —- this initial set of artworks is formed, which, in the making of the video work, represents the basic attributes of the action as an integral part of the scenery. A personal cosmos of fabrics and textures is created, in which a specific effect is sought to convey the visual and artistic spectrum within which the work develops. The costumes reference an older tradition, yet their execution is entirely new. Using image composition techniques borrowed from traditional painting, as well as augmented final color processing, we achieve the possibility that, if we stop the action on the canvas, we obtain a framed visual work guided by the characteristics of the old masters’ artistry. In this way, each frame from the video work becomes a picture in itself.
