NATURE TAKES OVER

In Flux_Nature Takes Over (2024) Ferracin performs an Amazonian shamanic ritual which has passed to her by Shaman Pajé Tobi Itauna in Brasil in 2015, based on honouring Mother Nature and its four natural elements/cardinal directions – Earth, Water, Air, Fire / East, South, West and North.

Like a pledge, Ferracin ask permission to the place before working with nature in the native bush, promising to protect the environment. The artist is improvising chants attuned to the surrounding’s energy, and staged on top a majestic native rock, with her four chimes instrument, which sound is attuned to the four natural elements.

Together with another slow time process video, the artwork evidences the flows of living matter over a two-year period, by letting time slow down the process and allow the weather exposure, the passage of animals, insects and organic matter to do the rest.

The video projection ensemble and the staged sculptures/work garments, immerse the visitors into a present of past experience.