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On the Latvian coastline, a German officer’s 1981 testimony guides us into the overgrown trenches where, forty years earlier, he filmed the massacre of the local Jewish population. A meditation on the function and agency of the camera in describing historical trauma.
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Santiago Mostyn’s films, installations, texts, and performances often explore the dissonance of lives lived between different political spheres. His work simultaneously employs footage of historical events, political and cultural figures, and racial injustice to speak to his own personal histories. Santiago creates an intuitive narrative through layering and collage, whether through video or installation, combining new and archival imagery. His research-like process examines questions of identity and memory, both personal and collective, and the intersections of history with current events.
Susanna has a background in queer theory and documentary film, and graduated from the Royal Art Academy in Stockholm. Often combining highly crafted sculptures and vernacular objects within an immersive installation architecture, their work investigates the ontological value of materials, events and bodies – how they sustain or disintegrate, and how meaning is ascribed to the places and times they inhabit.