Letters From the Ersten Stock

HD video, color, sound, 14'14. 2020

 

Switzerland has always appeared as that fictional landscape, where it is difficult to find something that doesn’t work, nearly as a utopia. This is even more visible during the lockdown. Those differences and contrasts around the globe are brought to evidence thanks to a pandemic.

 

Under this situation, a correspondence begins between the first floor and the second floor in a student shared house as an attempt to practice each other’s mother tongues. Language, communication, isolation, co-living, art production struggle, friendship, and nostalgia came into topic, all contained in this surreal scenario behind.