Year

2022

Category

Video installation

Abstract

“[…] genes cannot change over just a few hundred years, so we live in our modern society with bodies that are still adapted to the natural environment.Inevitably, we are in a state of constant stress and the recent rapid spread of computer technology has made this state of stress even worse.”
Miyazaki Yoshifumi

In Japan a type of preventive medicine is practiced, born from ancestral intuitions, but now supported by numerous scientific researches that approve its multiple psychophysiological benefits: shinrin-yoku [森林浴, ‘forest bath’].

From the results obtained in a 2019 study, conducted in collaboration by the University of Exeter Medical School [GB], Uppsala University [SE] and the University of Michigan Medical School [US], it would seem that spending at least 120 minutes a week immersed in nature is associated with states of well-being.

How do our sympathetic and parasympathetic systems react when immersed daily in real ‘pixel baths’ [gasoyoku, 画素浴]?

Length

120'

Visual artists

quatrième_paysage [Lucrezia Negrini, Samir Sayed Abdellattef]

Softwares

Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro.

Hardwares

Pc / laptop / mediaplayer; video projectors / monitors.

Exhibitions

2022
Presented at Cappella di Santa Maria dei Carcerati, in Palazzo Re Enzo [Bologna].

curated by Studio Tonnato for Mock Jungle, a Metoché project included in the institutional program of Art City Bologna, promoted by Municipality of Bologna.