Domestication

In her video the artist explores the conceptual model of the Essay on the Education and Instruction of Children written by Swiss theologian Johan Sulzer in 1748, which revolves around theidea that “education is nothing other than learning to obey”. This obedience is obtained through both physical and psychological coercion. Two characters, a man and a woman, who have absorbed this paradigm of violence into their own relationship, move in an evocative, poetic way through a domestic setting. They are always shown alone in that shared environment, as if each were a projection or memory in the other person’s mind, but the objects they use serve as tangible signs of their actual presence. The boundary between victim and abuser is so blurred that it becomes hard to say which is which. The visual register is an alternation between obsessive, disturbing rhythms and moments that are almost dreamlike, despite the plausibility of the setting and characters.