Rustan Söderling
On Location
- 202319m 24s
HD video
"On Location" presents as a dioramic stage play which unravels the history of a place known only as "The Site," tracing its evolution in reverse through a series of imagined historical ages. At the heart of this performance is a lecture delivered by "The Society," a group obsessed with cataloging every detail of the site. The true significance of The Site is never explicitly revealed, but the speaker's reverence suggests an almost sacred importance. As the lecture moves closer to the present, behind-the-scenes glimpses of the production reveal the artificiality of the performance, inviting the viewer to question the boundaries between reality and fiction. The film delves into the impossibility of fully understanding the past, highlighting the futility of freezing time or capturing the truth of any historical moment. The film playfully interrogates the construction of history itself, asking which narratives survive, who controls them, and how history, like some experimental stage play, is constantly rewritten..
Rustan Söderling (1984) is an artist from Gothenburg (SE) based in Amsterdam (NL) whose work focuses primarily on moving-image and animation. He studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie (Amsterdam) and completed a two-year residency at De Ateliers (Amsterdam). His current preoccupations involve the mutability of history, the spread of misinformation and the contemporary climate crisis.
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