Power and Responsability is a series comprised of a video and four sculptures of wooden weaponry. The video, titled Thank you for the Experience, I Have Leveled Up, consists of footage in which the artist “role-plays” or performs as a videogame character akin to the role-playing genre. The artist adopts the body language of a formulaically mechanised avatar, running at an even tempo and showcasing attack animations both in third person and first person view. These images are cut between “cut-scenes” in which the artist speaks about dynamics of power, and its relationship to fantasy weaponry, constructing a “lore” for the piece itself.

This project was the product of PACTO’s Galicia Residency, in which the artist was researching the notion of “Luxury Primitivism”, or the concept of living within a natural habitat with limited but liveable resources and access to mobile phones and social media. 

Ped.Moreira donated one of the weapons sculpted to the residency grounds as a metaphorical Excalibur altar, with runic symbols pertaining to past theological beliefs and a coded inscription about power and burden.

      


      
 


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