MicroMacro (or Motorized vs Handheld)
Description
MicroMacro (or Motorized vs Handheld) examines the fragile threshold between perception and scale, and between the mechanical eye and the human hand. Filmed entirely by the artist in remote regions of northern Iceland, the work moves between two contrasting modes of seeing: the expansive reach of aerial drone footage and the intimate, unstable proximity of microscopic imagery. It shifts from surveillance to touch, and from detachment to texture, vulnerability, and participation. The harsh, non-human landscapes evoke both awe and unease, resisting habitation and fixed meaning. Place emerges as relational and contingent, shaped through encounter and resistance. Within this terrain, the artist locates a personal sense of dislocation: a recurring search for belonging in places that refuse it. The contrast between motorized precision and embodied instability foregrounds hybridity and opens a dialogue between control and surrender, systems and gestures.
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