Antiexpert

“I have realized that the traditional omelet form (eggs and cheese) is bourgeois. Today I tried making one out of a cigarette, some coffee, and four tiny stones.” The Jean-Paul Sartre Cookbook.

"Alone, her pieces provoke. But as a corpus set amidst the baroque furniture and ostentatious neoclassical rooms of the National Palace, a monument to monarchy and colonialism, Vasconcelos’ work becomes sublime. Like her exhibit at the Palace of Versailles in 2012, Vasconcelos reinvigorates the halls and rooms of the ancien-régime with festivity, tragedy, beauty, pain, and life: ‘I feel the energy of a setting that gravitates between reality and dreams, the everyday and magic, the festive and the tragic,’ she said of the Versailles show. ‘I can still hear the echo of the footsteps of Marie-Antoinette, and the music and festive ambiance of the stately rooms.’”

Castle Undine (2013) came about as an experiment with film editing and narrative. The idea was to see if I could construct a film out of many disparate parts pieced together to make sense as a story, even if that story operates according to a logic all its own…

In the case of Castle Undine, I wanted to make a collage film in the truest sense: it would be made up of several different films, cut apart and edited together into one. Without a script, the story would be formed through associations, the narrative intent of those films rewritten and given new meaning within a new context.