CAMBIA SENZA CAMBIARE site-specific video installation 2005

Cambia senza Cambiare is a site-specific video installation developed and presented on Via Sepetto, Palermo Sicily.  Sited across an interior and exterior environment, the installation breaks the private/public boundary and offers an unconventional approach to the re-working of literary text.

Inspired by the book 'Play it as it Lays', by Joan Didion, and the Sicilian city; Palermo, the work creates literary imagery by fragmenting narrative and retracing architecture.  A video representation of the book is created in a typical Palermitan apartment.  Performed and filmed by one person alone in the flat, the video has a solitary and ambiguous atmosphere.  It focuses on mundane actions carried out in surreal ways with cinematic ambition, imprisoning the character inside her private film set.

On arrival, the visitors are faced with a huge projection of this video across one façade of the street.  On entering the flat from where the projection is escaping, they enter the film set and find the source of the image and an entire wall covered in an architectural drawing of the façade on which the video is playing.  The facades have swaped.  Mirrored. The inside is now visible to the public and the private interior displays the exterior scene.  Reality, the film set, past and present blur, bounce and colide.