Quello che verrà è solo una promessa (That which is to come is just a promise) (2019) digital video 2K, 22 mins
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Quello che verrà è solo una promessa (That which is to come is just a promise)
(2019) 22 mins
Selected by GAMeC, Bergano
Flatform’s film That which is to come is just a promise (2021) land and water are the protagonists of this work, at least as much as the people and the things that suffer their changes.
In a long sequence through Funafuti, one of Tuvalu archipelago’s islands (in the South Pacific Ocean) where the sea rises from the ground and floods it, the state of drought and flooding alternate fluidly, and without interruption.
The places and the actions of the inhabitants, in the constant and smooth movement from one state to another, set-aside two recurring situations in the island: anticipation and surprise.
Flatform is a collective artist based in Milan and Berlin, founded in Milan in 2006.
Works by Flatform have been shown in many museums and institutions including, among others, Centre Pompidou in Paris, Hirshhorn Museum in Washington DC, Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, MAXXI Museum in Rome, EMPAC Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center in Troy NY, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin, Argos Centre for Arts in Bruxelles, Palazzo Grassi in Venice, MSU-Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, Cineteca Matadero in Madrid, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam, Museu da Imagem e do Som in San Paolo, PAC in Milan.
