Dépaysement - a saudade do desencontro (Change of scenery - the longing for (non) encountering) is part of a longer and broader research upon trans*material landscapes: shapeshifting frameworks that favour softer and more vulnerable environments. The research as well as this work dive into the feeling of displacement, displaced bodies and their loss of sense of belonging when ‘othered’.



dépaysement (super)poses multiple flows of visuality, sonic exploration, materiality and textuality to critically reflect upon environmental and systemic anxiety, bridging the coral and human ‘working body’. Through the lenses of eco~queer~crip theories, the textual layer uses poetics and fabulation to reflect on transformation, (self)healing and ‘becoming~by~living~together’. 
The video poetically maps (micro) landscapes as subjectivities in search for regenerative postnatural ecosystems. Through a cinematic performativity, the viewer navigates between micro and macro worlds weaved with digitally generated images translated from scanning of sculptural work and nature. 
The soundscape translates the sculptures’ coloured voices and plays with movement and displacement to allure the ever-growing number of extinct natural species. In dialogue with the sound, a polyvocal voice-over plays with the overlapping of multiple voices to create a communal voice, neither here, nor there but always present.
The viewer is invited to cuddle the sculptural works and lay down to let go while floating on Flotte. Coralias & Molluskulars are performers and the inhabitants of an under the surface landscape. They glow under UV light like fluorescent coral reefs. Through speculative touch as the methodology of being in' touch’, these sculptures reflect nature in its textures and manifestations, speculating about other possible futures.