This work is composed of two elements: a still video that repeats a single frame and a specific page from a Biennial of Venice catalogue. Both show a Ferris wheel that is most likely the one from the Prater in Vienna. The still video is from my family’s archives and the catalogue is from a 1990 publication. 

 

RotaCupa invites the spectator to share and celebrate the sense of serendipitousness through which these two elements, otherwise unbound, are linked. The connection between the video and the catalogue page is not about the reference to the same object – the Ferris wheel – but to the circumstance of being “identified,” “found,” and “brought together” by the artist's sight. 

 

This pairing’s representation of the same object is determined by the subjective circumstances of the artist who, in a single moment, has recognized the image of another Ferris wheel.

RotaCupa asks the viewer to think of sight as a bridge, an instrument, not only capable of making things stand out but also creating connections that otherwise would remain a mere possibility.

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Video Installation, 2017