The footage used in Dissolution (I Know Nothing) composes a form of seascape, assembling fragmented connections through material and time from Congo, Rwanda and Nigeria through the Indian Ocean on a containership to China. Gunpowder, dissolved minerals, blinking LEDs, personal and colonial histories. All that is solid melts into flow.

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Commissioned by Container Artist Residency. 8mm footage by Harrie Van Balen.
Many thanks to Maayan Strauss, Captain Ruslan Tsyganenko, Jan Van Balen.

Installation photos by Toni Hafkenscheid