Primus | Abigaïl Ferreira-Compagnon | 2023 | 2’21
In this video, I filmed images of nature, specifically the sea and clouds. These two elements are directly related to water. To form clouds, water from the earth and seas evaporates and cools to form water droplets, which then turn into clouds. What interests me here is the relationship with sheets tumbling in a machine. This movement forms colored masses that can be compared to clouds. Their lightness and movement have a certain poetic quality. The warm air rushes through the linen, the wind through the clouds, stirring up the seas, rushing into our ears. We can observe them as we would a landscape. But this poetry is quite different when set against the concerns of climate and water consumption.
“Primus” is both the brand name of the dryer and a reference to the idea of primacy, of being first. In the beginning was nature… then the “primus homo” (man of first rank, the most important man) took his place in it.