Single-channel Video 16:9. Loop projection on floating screen. 300 x 240 cm. 15’18 min.

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I leave the studio with the camera mounted on my arm. I take a walk, a walk around the immediate surroundings of my workspace. The camera records a sequence shot, a very close-up of the hand continuously moving two shiny metal balls inside the palm. The balls reflect the counterfield of the action, its spatial context. The sound of his rubbing is also mixed with the sound of the surroundings, the different moments of the walk and my breathing. The different visual variations during the itinerary (changes in light, terrain, materials and colors) allow us to intuit that the space of action is a threshold where the city dissolves in nature: an update as possible. contemporary arcadia.

The repetition of the same rotating gesture throughout the course creates a hypnotic suspension of time. The space rotates inside the palm of the hand from its reflection in the balls (stir the space in the hand, contain its image and pour it). The maximum grasping and movement capacity of this part of the body, as well as its monumentalized projection, give it an abstract dimension that allows us to enter into the reflection of the space that rotates without turning.

The action ends when you return to the workshop, the starting point. The circularity of the route completes the circular movement in the palm of the hand. The balls are stored in their case as another tool of the productive activity linked to creation.