She was always thought of but never touched. Her soft skin turned to angles, her fertile lands to blocks of colour.
The descendant of “Magic: The Gathering” and first-person video games that are based on explorations rather than solving tasks.
There are five basic lands – plains, islands, swamps, forests and mountains. And you choose one. You are looking into her eyes, the eyes of an exhibition. This is Fuchsia version 3.
Fuchsia version 3 is the last chapter of Maria Metsalu’s project “Fuchsia”.
Music: mobilegirl
Voice edit: Steve Martin Snider
Texts adapted from:
“Dear Esther” (The Chinese Room)
“Firewatch” (Campo Santo)
“Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture” (The Chinese Room, SIE Santa Monica Studio)
“The Void” (Ice-Pick Lodge, ND Games)
“CHYRZA” (Kitty Horrorshow)
Maria Metsalu (1990) is an Estonian choreographer and performer who finished her studies from SNDO (School for New Dance Development) in 2016.
She creates mainly solo works with an ongoing interest in the production of her own persona, self-mythologisation of it and her own autopoiesis. Exploring physical and virtual realities, bringing them together, understanding the differences of those two in terms of interaction, social exchange and transformation are important aspects of her research process. She aims to articulate relations between visual culture, identity, appropriation, telepresence and voyeurism using self referential relationships with corporate technologies.
instagram.com/dotasita
http://mariametsalu.tumblr.com/
maria.metsalu.com
Nikola Knežević (1981) is an artist formerly trained as an architect. He graduated from Sandberg Institute in 2015 as a participant of the School of Missing Studies (MA course) led by artist Liesbeth Bik and Jos Van der Pol.
Currently based in Amsterdam (NL)
http://cargocollective.com/nikolaknezevic
