Stillness

Audiovisual

Mákó Bori
Stillness / single-channel video installation / video loop / 2025

Stillness is a single-channel video installation, an animated painting with music composed by Mári Mákó, a contemporary experimental composer.

Bori Mákó’s concept:

I took as my starting point Caspar David Friedrich’s painting The Sea of Ice, which, although it depicts a real landscape, can also be understood as a non-figurative painting. This duality is what I would like to represent in my work, so that the viewer can recognise the individual natural motifs, but still see an image of abstracted forms. The animation, through sequential movements that move endlessly, cyclically, gives an unusual sense of time, as if we are watching a moment that never ends. The resulting slow, atmospheric looped video provides an opportunity for contemplative attention and introspection, supported by the slow flowing drone music and field recordings during the animation. The rumbling ice and the weight of the large mass is given weight by the very deep vibrating bass and muffled glassy sounds. My aim is to create a video work that both reflects Friedrich’s oeuvre and highlights the importance of respecting the landscape and its importance for the alienated man in the shadow of climate catastrophe.