LOVA RANUNG
I will keep you right here
I will keep you right here
2024
7 min, animation
Sandberg graduation show
NDSM - Amsterdam, NL
In I will keep you right here — in merging and and in an ending I explore the interplay of dirt, dust and particles within a fantasy of a digital microcosm. This world is characterized by continuous divides and mergings, where the smallest elements carry a profound narrative significance. Beneath the surface of the landscape there is a bodily motor that is buzzing and oozing, suggesting a hidden life force driving this ecosystem. The work follows the rhyhm of breathing as air connects dust particles, formed by pixels, to bodies both inside and outside the screen, through breath (hopefully).
The fusion of bodies with landscapes serves as a central theme, representing both an escape from reality and a means of survival within it. This piece journeys through an open-looping narrative, blurring the lines between emergence and merging, body and landscape, reality and fantasy. The story unfolds through intimate close-ups, capturing the process of elements intertwining and transforming.
I worked with digital animation to create the world portrayed in the film. Additionally, I collaborated with musician and artist Welmoed Eggeraat to record a soundscape based on breath and voice, capturing the tone of the narrative.
Crash (or the thing that separates us)
Crash (or the thing that separates us) is a video inspired by a plant, the Giant Hogweed, which is known for its height as well as having some harmful properties - it can burn skin and can cause blindness if its sap, combined with UV light, reaches the eyes.
In the video, which is played in a loop, the plant is depicted, pushing against the glass, in an attempt to either escape or reach one another.
The work blurs the lines between body, landscape, the digital realm, and reality, tapping into matters of belonging, exclusion, hierarchy and defense.
2022
10.00 min.
Video installation
4k video, stereo sound
Exhibited in the following groupshows:
In the vacuum, we felt air
Kunsfort bij Vijhuizen, Amsterdam. NL
Nyutexaminerade
Tjörnedala konstall, Simrishamn SWE
Lets table this for now
NEVERNEVERLAND
Amsterdam. NL
Kunsfort bij Vijhuizen, Amsterdam. NL
Nyutexaminerade
Tjörnedala konstall, Simrishamn SWE
Lets table this for now
NEVERNEVERLAND
Amsterdam. NL
This light makes your plans unclear
This light makes your plans unclear
The video is a looping fantasy about a landscape that breathes and vibrates with the intake of air. A mountain lake acts like the mouth, leading to the lungs of the Earth.
2023
Animation
07.22 min.
4k video, stereo sound
NEVERNEVERLAND
Amsterdam. NL
Your eyes
get caught
in the thought
that the light
is indecisive
making your brain
indecisive
in experiencing it
This light is staged
This is a movie set
for a film
about the end of the world
that doesn't have the best budget
This light makes your ribs soft
Your plans unclear
You're really under something
This sky is physical
Your eyes
get caught
in the thought
that the light
is indecisive
This light is staged
indecisive
light and dark
vibrating -with my eyes
Breath of the giant Hogweed
This video installation showcases two life-sized figures, adorned with human features and inspired by the invasive Giant Hogweed plant. The essence of the piece revolves around their rhythmic respiration and repetitive gestures, complemented by a mixture of breath-like and wave-like sounds.
The videos are animated using the software Blender and then projected onto wooden panels measuring 1x2 meters in size.
2023
05.00 min
Video installation
4k video, stereo sound
Sandberg Institute
Amsterdam. NL
Sea Foam
SEA FOAM
2024
Live immersive multimedia performance
“The sea shrinks before dawn. We retreat into daylight. When night rises high, we expand, our borders arrive at the door again, through the door we flow away.”
A dialogue is woven between video work by Lova Ranung, soundscapes & sound performance by Maria Landgren Hilmersson, sculpture and reading by Yan-Bing Wu, and costume design by Agnese Smaldone. Exploring seafoam through its ongoing relationship of converging movements, challenges the various stages of our perceptions.
Sea foam is created by the agitation of seawater. It is churned up by breaking waves in the surf zone near shore; the surfactants in these turbulent conditions trap air and form persistent bubbles sticking together by surface tension. Every transformation requires movement from one state to another. Moving entities are integral parts of life, pulling us towards the invisible, the ever-changing, the unstable, the unprotected and the multifaceted.
A 'sense of change' is essential for survival for any animal. We know the importance of change because we are acutely aware of the emotional responses it evokes in us: anything that moves through time and space also moves through our feelings.
We tend to see and feel more as distance increases, not less, because we replace the physical with thought and feeling. However, transformation happens by collision. Therefore, we become transformed by what touches us. Perhaps, if we can reverse the relationship, distance dissolves. In the basic condition of our understanding, everything that enters consciousness is experienced as a part, and a continuation of the self. The objects merge with our experiences, in body, in memory, in inner anticipation, in the murmur of sound, in the quickening or slowing of pulse and breath. What cannot be changed externally can be brought into dialogue, imagination and words, like the foam carried by the sea.
10th February
Researchlabs 2024 / Eye Filmmuseum / Cinema 2
Amsterdam, Netherlands
2024
Live immersive multimedia performance
“The sea shrinks before dawn. We retreat into daylight. When night rises high, we expand, our borders arrive at the door again, through the door we flow away.”
A dialogue is woven between video work by Lova Ranung, soundscapes & sound performance by Maria Landgren Hilmersson, sculpture and reading by Yan-Bing Wu, and costume design by Agnese Smaldone. Exploring seafoam through its ongoing relationship of converging movements, challenges the various stages of our perceptions.
Sea foam is created by the agitation of seawater. It is churned up by breaking waves in the surf zone near shore; the surfactants in these turbulent conditions trap air and form persistent bubbles sticking together by surface tension. Every transformation requires movement from one state to another. Moving entities are integral parts of life, pulling us towards the invisible, the ever-changing, the unstable, the unprotected and the multifaceted.
A 'sense of change' is essential for survival for any animal. We know the importance of change because we are acutely aware of the emotional responses it evokes in us: anything that moves through time and space also moves through our feelings.
We tend to see and feel more as distance increases, not less, because we replace the physical with thought and feeling. However, transformation happens by collision. Therefore, we become transformed by what touches us. Perhaps, if we can reverse the relationship, distance dissolves. In the basic condition of our understanding, everything that enters consciousness is experienced as a part, and a continuation of the self. The objects merge with our experiences, in body, in memory, in inner anticipation, in the murmur of sound, in the quickening or slowing of pulse and breath. What cannot be changed externally can be brought into dialogue, imagination and words, like the foam carried by the sea.
10th February
Researchlabs 2024 / Eye Filmmuseum / Cinema 2
Amsterdam, Netherlands
