Alien Fanfare
2014. video (color, sound), media player, screen or projector, 13 minute seamless loop.
Inspired by Albrecht Dürer’s 16th-century woodcut of a triumphal arch, the work satirically transforms this historic monument into a contemporary luxury hotel. Spaceships and dragons, seemingly fusions of skin and gilt ornamentation, invade earth, giving an unsettling sense of a scientific experiment gone awry. This dissonance creates an uncanny juxtaposition of historical and futuristic elements; mythology, synthetic materials, and architectures of excess—highlighting the intersections of wealth, power, and speculative fiction.
