Aer(ra)

Aer(ra)

Aer(ra) (2025) unfolds as a horizontal sequence of ten small screens installed unusually high along the wall, forming an elevated visual line that subtly disorients the viewer’s gaze. Across these screens, birds appear in motion, yet their flight is inverted, creating the impression of falling while still airborne. This inversion unsettles the familiar logic of movement, where flight is typically associated with upward direction and control.
The title Aer(ra) combines the words aer and terra, suggesting a space suspended between air and earth. Within this in between condition, movement loses its stable orientation. Flight no longer implies ascent or destination, but becomes a continuous drift, a gesture caught between propulsion and descent.
The elevated placement of the screens intensifies this ambiguity. Positioned above the expected line of sight, they draw the viewer’s attention upward, yet what is seen contradicts that movement. The birds do not rise but appear to descend, producing a tension between the direction of the gaze and the logic of the image.
In this way, movement is detached from its expected course and reconfigured as a condition of suspension. The work does not resolve into a fixed reading but remains open, oscillating between falling and flying. Through this disjunction, Aer(ra) creates a perceptual space in which direction becomes unstable and motion persists without clear orientation.