3 Channel HD Video Installation (2 - 7min) loop on semi transparent projection screen, video screen, wallpaper, 7 photography, ice sculpture, size variable, 2024
The project was first presented and was nominated for the Prix Mobilière 2024 in January 2024 at artgenève and received the Swiss Design Award 2024 during Art Basel in June 2024.
‘Mimicry’ is inspired by how seeing something in something else affects our mind and world-view. How objects resemble nature, how we are always looking for similarities and a connection, a nexus, a unifying reason to objects. How objects can develop characters and capacity for mimicry, while their meanings are constantly challenged as their visual aspect changes. I’d like to invite the viewer to my colourful environment, to discover something they have seen before: “Is what I see exactly the same, or has its meaning shifted?”*
Mimicry as protection, deception, survival strategy, I am looking at emotional stages of isolation, destruction, loneliness, presented as a multidisciplinary installation. Freezing and becoming fluid again, sensing simultaneity in time, through the processes of water and other natural and man-made elements. Mixing and manipulating the ingredients they are becoming metaphors and protagonists of the abstract mise en scènes and corrupted still-life landscapes. Are they longing for an unseen new environment or resembling the memory, a feeling of the lost paradise?
I’m fascinated by the metamorphoses water is capable of going through, capturing a moment, creating an own organism – nature morte ; frozen in time. The imaginary worlds are conserved in death, slowly melting away and becoming life again. A place yet to be discovered.
Graduated from a master’s degree in photography from ECAL, Hullár explores themes of connection, intimacy, materiality, time, and perception in her practice. Working with video, photography, and 3D, and experimenting with installations, she investigates the possibilities of new still and moving images and plays with the surreality of real and generated objects to reflect on the question of the possible future of balance between man-made and natural materials, represented through a humorous and feminine prism.
CREDITS
Grateful for the support of the ECAL Residence at La Becque,
and its Team, where the project was developed & produced in summer 2023.
Maureen Coleman material research, Kathryn Brazil, Calum Douglas, Jasmine Deporta, Anja Karolina Furrer, Atelier Narrato, Benedek Takács, Varga Csilla Stephen Nthusi, Flavio Leone, Alexandra Ditcheva, Sophie Mercedes Lardon, Oliver Cretton & Robin Moser assistance.
Curator La Mobilère Anna Vetsch & Ismene Wyss