Ombretta Agró Andruff

Curatorial Statement:

Charting dreams, fears and premonitions of collapse, Memories from the Future is a series of performative actions made in the landscape of Florida and recorded in video and photography. The work weaves fictions and conjures dream-like images - but images that are nevertheless built on very real physical actions. In each work the artist’s body is placed in precarious and absurd situations where he is either stranded, sinking or engulfed. Borrowing a language from ‘Slapstick’, the work uses a sculptural physicality to picture, but also to embody, humankind’s precarious position on this planet - a position that leads to an absurd and desperate humour. In these times of pandemic the work speaks to the position of a vulnerable individual displaced, distanced and disorientated by his strange new circumstances.