Manipulated found footage. Discarded shoes, rust, concrete, ash, salt. Laneway Gallery, Cork, 2023
This installation responds to Vladimir Putin’s 2023 New Year’s address, focusing on its visual language and underlying psychological tone. The manipulated footage highlights the eerie stillness, synchronised gestures, and muted facial expressions of its participants, evoking a sense of unease, control, and performative unity. Beneath the screen, a ghostly path composed of worn, discarded shoes unfurls across the gallery floor. These shoes, covered in a mixture of ash, salt, and rust, reference historical trauma and human loss
