Nadine Valcin

Much of my work deals with memory and forgotten histories. I am constantly searching for new ways to portray the invisible past that haunts the present. (Un)seen is a video installation about presence/absence that uses proxemics to trigger video and sound. It recreates a ghostly presence appearing on a screen whose voice constantly beckons the viewer to get closer, but whose image recedes into the frame as the viewer tries to engage with it. Ultimately, the viewer is invited to touch the cloth it is projected on, but if they do, the ghost completely disappears from view, leaving an empty black screen.

With permission, I will be using unused footage from a previous project comprised of closeups of a Black woman on a black background and will be recording and mixing a new soudtrack.