TUKULEUR INSTALLATION

In this installation I reworked my film Tukuleur into a dual screen loop which shifted the nuance of the film quite drastically. The comparative viewing experience focuses more on the construction of the image and how it drives the reading of the viewer rather than the subject of the single-screen film. By comparing the character to itself, showing different camera angles simultaneously, including the director's notes, make-up breaks and set building the installation attempts to address how the images we consume are not self-evident. The careful construction of images and representation within images are a vital part of how we read bodies. Tukuleur installation forces you to constantly compare the same body in different forms and shapes. An endless flood of personas in a multitude of poses alternating each other with no beginning or ending. By including the director's notes and instructions this body loses its own agency and becomes a puppet for the camera. Make-up artist, hairdresser, costume designer, first AD and more crew members join the character on screen. The image is constructed, built by the labour of many to hide their own work, to naturalise what is being seen. This installation reveals its own construction in an attempt to dismantle the "naturalised" into its building blocks.