- Artist
- Rosa Menkman
- Year
- 2020
- Medium
- Video 15"
- Artistic Residency
- Collide
In Whiteout, Rosa Menkman tells the story of an exhausting mountain hike during a snowstorm.
As she makes her way up the mountain, she experiences the loss of her physical sensations, leading to an inability to see, hear, or orient herself and the oversaturation of the environment itself. While steadily moving forward, the spatial dimensions that were at first seemingly wiped out start to offer themselves in new ways.
What does it mean to navigate a grey, dimensionless space? To move without visual or auditory references or to physically plot a course when there is no conventional sense of direction or even horizon? For Menkman, the experience of Whiteout is one of the slices of consciousness and traversing a virtual axis to nowhere. A landscape with multiple horizons, in which orientation between top and bottom does not exist except within the wanderer’s mind. And even though things seemed to happen in the same space, this state created different places, all layered at once.
