Niko Skorpio: The True Nature of Things

Completion year: 2014

Technique: 2-channel video installation, 06'15" (loop) / HD 1080p, 16:9/round, colour, stereo

Edition: 3 + 1 ap

The True Nature of Things is a two-channel video installation that consists of two apparently independent parts. They interact with each other, or wage a stealth war, perhaps.

The True Nature of Things studies the indescribable: an individual’s personal experience of existence, which may not necessarily match the objective reality. Simultaneously experiences become mediated – vicarious, objectified, distorted. Events are experienced through the screen of a smart phone. Pics or it didn’t happen!

Virtual networks shatter consensus reality. Trusted media sinks into mush, where supposed delutions, speculations and conspiracy theories appear equally authentic. The infodeluge shapes a person’s identity and drives him to, by fear of drowning, attach to any driftwoods encountered. He forgets that all matter is constantly on the brink of decay. The true nature of things may only reveal itself once the overcovering structures collapse.

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