Artist Statement for Fractured Echoes (2025)

Fractured Echoes is a two-channel video installation that explores the fractured nature of physical and digital existence, where identity, memory, and perception collide in a dizzying, fragmented reality. The first channel remixes iconic films—such as Apocalypse Now and Psycho—dislocating their narratives to evoke themes of alienation, desire, and the search for truth in a world of illusion. These films, disjointed and recontextualized, serve as metaphors for our collective experience of a broken and often surreal reality, where meaning is obscured beneath layers of digital media, glittering pop culture, and historical trauma.

The second channel, projected onto aluminum foil, operates as a subtextual layer, abstracting tension and undercurrents of the visual and emotional landscape. The reflective surface of the foil amplifies this tension, drawing the viewer into a space where surface and depth blur, much like our own perception of truth. The combination of remixed cinematic and news media imagery with abstract elements creates a visceral, immersive environment that reflects the fragmented nature of modern existence. Through this installation, Fractured Echoes invites the viewer to confront the many layers of their own fractured reality, prompting reflection on the construction of identity, the nature of desire, and the illusions we navigate daily.