Escapism to Amore Fati
Medium: 3D doodle pen & filament
This collection was inspired a series of incidences happened on one night to one group of people. A random Saturday night out with a group of friends turned out to be the explosion of all the emotions and thoughts that they have been holding back. There was a bit of drama, a bit of trauma, some hilarious adventures and also some unfortunate events.
After the peace returned to the group, I decided to interview all the people involved to map out what exactly happened that night. The interviews were rather a collective confrontation and reaction on all the inplusive decisions that we made as a group than an actual interview, and a lot of information from different angles were provided to me. Therefore, this collection was produced as a push to further confrontation and reflection, to ease the feelings, symbolize the experience and commodify the aftermath. Forms were drawn from all these interviews and feelings were conceptualized. Finally, this free-handed "drawn" collection is released.
Wish the most rollercoaster, absurd, bipolar night of my life stay in the form of art forever.
Directed & edited by Nicola Rios
Produced by Maya Marzuki & Anahita Andrian
Super 8 film by Sterling Smith
Vhs footage by Nicola Rios
Lighting by Steven Zambon
Designs by Sia Fang
Photo by Ashley Zhang
MUA by Courtney Min
Modeled by
Maya Marzuki
Anahita Andrian
Alisa Wang
Harrison Yu
Venue by La Noxe
