Infinity Room explores the intricate web of nature, the internet and human passivity. It shows a faceless protagonist's search for something that has been lost and that has left a gaping absence.

The protagonist is inclosed in an empty room, but a Screen fills the room with simulated allurement. The only link they have to nature is obtained through the Screen. The protagonist longs for this connection, even though the existence of nature is replaced by a complete simulation of it. Here, one can only observe (or browse) nature as some kind of spectacle within the confines of the screen. Video footage of actual landscape shot through car windows are presented on the screen; a layer of nostalgia is hence added as the footage embodies a bygone memory.

Questions are left unanswered: Is ‘nature’ as we know it gone/destroyed? Is the Screen the only portal to the outside world?

This film is heavily influenced by postmodernist ideas, such as Jean Baudrillard’s concept of hyperreality, which describes an “inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from a simulation of reality, especially in technologically advanced societies.”  The protagonist in this film is an archetypal specimen/resident of hyperreality. One important literary influence was David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest, especially the motif of the video tape so engrossing and addictive that its viewers would be all rendered completely so passive and immobile that they would eventually die while watching the tape. The tape in IJ provide interminable entertainment to replace material reality, which parallels the Screen in my work that replaces the physical nature.

This work is shown on a flatscreen TV in a room that mirrors the actual Empty Room from the video (SEE INSTALLATION VIEWS BELOW). The table where the television sits on and the chair in front of the table are wrapped together clumsily with transparent cling film, creating an atmosphere of tension and attachment. The room is flooded with green light, the same colour as a green screen. This colour choice plays with the idea of the infinite possibilities behind a green screen.