Mercury was commissioned for SOLAR, a walking app that scales down the universe. On arriving at each mapped planet, the app unlocks the artwork.  It was screened at Documenta Festival, Kassel, 2017. 

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The water ice on Mercury is 20 metres deep. Maybe there is a tiny rivulet of water running freely at the bottom? Perhaps there's life in it. Suspending a GoPro in a pond, I captured footage from below the surface, then rotated it, giving the otherworldly impression that the insects are swimming through air. Layering this on top of a painting of a torso suggests a strange, unsettling human connection.

Slowing down a commissioned poem, in a response to 1 day on Mercury being equivalent to 176 days on Earth, the haunting voice intensifies the disquieting mood of the soundtrack that imagines insect sound.

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Screenings:

Documenta Festival, Kassel 2017