Soot Breath // Corpus Infinitum

Artists/Creators: Denise Ferreira da Silva (Artist)
Arjuna Neuman (Artist)
Date: 2020
ID #: BG6232

Physical Description

Medium: film transferred to video
Support: –
Dimensions: –
Object Description: Soot Breath // Corpus Infinitum follows the element of earth through its facets, groundings and forms. Like the previous films, its sensibility hails from listening to the blues, to skin, to heat. In order to speculate on how to exist otherwise as humans, Soot Breath // Corpus Infinitum explores the construction of subjectivity – how social subjects, identities and categories are formed and recreated in society – in particular, how these processes have been designed as sovereign and interior. Soot Breath // Corpus Infinitum gathers examples where subjectivity is unbound from the mind alone, but re-bound to all other existents. The film flows between the historic, the organic, the quantum and the cosmic in its consideration of this interiority being exploited towards racial violence.

History

Collection: Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery Permanent Collection
Credit Line: Purchased with support from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Morris and Helen Belkin Foundation, 2022
Related Exhibitions: –

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