Terraforma
Under the vibrant colours of a sunset, the first images of Terraforma reveal a strange yet familiar landscape. A mountainous region dotted with architectural forms immerses us in a world between nature and science fiction. Water—and human beings—are conspicuously absent, and the ground appears parched. Snow and winter are everywhere, appearing time and again to form a bridge between the virtual ice onscreen and its real form just beyond the image.
To create this work, Ratté generated a collection of topographies using satellite data from Brasília, Hong Kong, and Stockholm. By juxtaposing them, she explores not only our relationship with virtual and physical realities, but also time and its subjective nature, space, and time zones. Above and below her images, a reflection sometimes scrolls past, like a landscape mirrored on a still lake: water connects time and space.
Screening hours: 5:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Sabrina Ratté explores the convergence of technology and biology, as well as the speculative evolution of our environment, and she is deeply informed by science fiction, philosophy, ecological thought, and occult traditions. Her work has been presented at the Laforet Museum (Tokyo), the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Centre Pompidou (Paris), the Max Ernst Museum (Brühl), and at the Museum of the Moving Image (New York).
Collaborating artists: Guillaume Arseneault and Roger Tellier-Craig.
This project was made possible with the financial support of the Government of Québec.
