Kamile Pikelyte

Mesmerizing Catastrophes 

3-channel video, Caligo Atreus butterfly, Atlantic Wolfish teeth, gelatine, metal wires 

Concerns about world horrors, and acceptance of satellite data from stranger realities to invade one’s life and dreams, feels like a hypnotic collapse that emotionally paralyzes. Things get strange when these moments begin to interlace with our own memories. It turns people into viewers or helpless witnesses. The numbness of the camera normalizes and creates a distance to the nightmarish imagery. This is a visualization of multi-layered reality, where natural and unnatural forces are interacting, and my subconscious response to a vast human catastrophe.