A visual research into the aesthetics of the pleasure industry. A video that seeks to ‘kink’-bend, warp, curve and twist-familiar images of seduction and desire. In Kinked pornographic tropes are imitated, recontextualised and lovingly ruptured. The video is executed as a mix between found footage, computer generated images, traditional animation and recordings by the director. A visual vocabulary, moving towards a new sensual semantics.
‘Silence lay steadily against the wood and stone’ is an uncanny composition of familiar settings; transporting you from dusty attics to ornate wedding venues and beyond. By animating vacant spaces, Hjermind turns backgrounds into main characters. The video questions how architectural structures can have personalities and how interiors might demand a certain behaviour. It brings to mind both surveillance footage and landscape paintings. The viewer is invited to linger in liminal space, while experiencing the hierarchy between spectator, space and screen slowly dissolving. Who is watching whom?
We are used to domestic spaces being designed for us to inhabit, but what happens when houses become moody main characters rather than backgrounds? With flickering tracings and ornamented strokes, If you begin to feel the house catching at you is an animated video installation that examines the “haunted house” as a fiction trope.
