Souconna & August, 1838
The film August, 1838 is a draft scene from a longer work of speculative fiction. The installation, Souconna, presents a scenographic reconstruction of the bedroom in which the film’s protagonist sleeps and dreams. Within the oneiric space : a silvered waterlily (conjured from the Saône river), three gum bichromate prints of riverine vegetation and flora around the Saône and Fourvière neighbourhood, and a an amphora turned from Robinia pseudoacacia— a tree brought to Paris from North America in 1601, long misidentified as a species of Acacia ; the source of gum arabic.
To access the online edition of the work (available for limited viewing from September 13th), please email yanambaye@gmail.com.
Produced for Grace Aotearoa (see further detail here), with support from Creative New Zealand. Photographs Samuel Hartnett.
Gum Bichromate, Patinated Steel, Robinier Pseudoacacia, Sandcast Aluminium, Various inscriptions. Digital. 15:57.
To access the online edition of the work (available for limited viewing from September 13th), please email yanambaye@gmail.com.
Produced for Grace Aotearoa (see further detail here), with support from Creative New Zealand. Photographs Samuel Hartnett.
Gum Bichromate, Patinated Steel, Robinier Pseudoacacia, Sandcast Aluminium, Various inscriptions. Digital. 15:57.
