Whim of Variations

Through a passionate celebration of obsessive listing, a plethora of still lives unfolds slowly, with hypnotic rhythm, in a residence where life is reflected in the multitude of objects comprising its interior space. As a profane litany, the film reveals a house forged with the typical resonances of the person who lived there before. Although inanimate, this space opens up to tell a single story in disparate ways. A visual poem that allows to give up synthesis and to contemplate the expansion of an abandoned place through what is left. The space is covered with flocks of objects arranged by the artist in different compositions, with the aim of reviving them and consequently descending into her own biography, setting and resetting the house. A form of self-discovery with interposed person, walking in somebody else’s home and finding pieces of oneself. Making the family’s skeleton dance also means to take this reshaping list to extremes, in order to enliven the commemorative elements. The attempt to satisfy this whim is perceived through a contemplative video piece, where different compositions of objects reveal stories and expand the house. Whim of Variations gives life to a plethora of prosaic items: by modeling itself, the visual list opens the room to numerous possibilities, presenting bizarre elements and contradictions. Disturbing moments and variations occur in the film, with repetitive music coming both from a clock and two old carillons. An act of expansion, a sumptuous disarrangement of properties through repetition, dissonance, and combinations. A continuous dance of fullness and emptiness, to create an oracle-space filled with unique stories.