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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: AES+F, Inverso Mundus, 2015

AES+F INVERSO MUNDUS – 1ch trailer 6 min FullHD 1080 from Svyatsky AES+F on Vimeo.

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Inverso Mundus, 2015
HD video installation (7-, 3-, and 1-channel versions)
duration: 38 mins
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Engravings in the genre of 'World Upside Down', known since the 16th century, depict such scenes as a pig gutting the butcher, a child punishing his teacher, a man carrying...
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Engravings in the genre of "World Upside Down", known since the 16th century, depict such scenes as a pig gutting the butcher, a child punishing his teacher, a man carrying a donkey on his back, man and woman exchanging roles and dress, and a beggar in rags magnanimously bestowing alms on a rich man. These engravings contain demons, chimeras, fish flying through the sky and death itself, variously with a scythe or in the mask of a plague doctor. The title of the work, Inverso – both an Italian "reverse, the opposite" and the Old Italian "poetry," and Mundus – the Latin "world," hints at a reinterpretation of reality, a poetic vision. In our interpretation, the absurdist scenes from the medieval carnival appear as episodes of contemporary life in a multichannel video installation. Characters act out scenes of absurd social utopias and exchange masks, morphing from beggars to rich men, from policemen to thieves. Metrosexual street-cleaners are showering the city with refuse. Female inquisitors torture men on IKEA-style structures. Children and seniors are fighting in a kickboxing match. Inverso Mundus is a world where chimeras are pets and the Apocalypse is entertainment.
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