O V E R L I N E
Video projection and sculptural installation
Video projection and sculptural installation
Overline is a layered video installation filmed across financial districts and redeveloping docklands in Cork, Dublin, and London. The work explores the hypnotic effects of this kind of glass paned architecture and the homogenization and financialization of space emerging within the structures of neoliberalism. The projected films bleed into one another with a slow, breath-like rhythm, evoking how dominant ideologies present themselves as natural progressions. Adjacent hangs cascading, high II, a photographic installation of financial districts in various European cities, which suspends like a waterfall. Below, a stack of old single-pane windows lies layered on the floor, partially buried in soil and overgrowth. These fragile remnants gesture toward obsolete forms and forgotten architectures, those displaced by the relentless march of progress. Their thin, brittle glass contrasts starkly with the hardened opacity of contemporary façades which reflects like an infinity pool on their surface.