y2o_Arsenal Toronto GALERY — dominiquetskoltz

y2o, 2013.

Video installation in nine mouvements.

y2o, movement no 1: link, 3 min 30 sec.
y2o, movement no 2: noeuds, 2 min 14 sec.
y2o, movement no 3: nerfs, 2min 03 sec.
y2o, movement no 4: bulles de silence, 3 min 56 sec.
y2o, movement no 5: ce mortel ennui, 3 min 14 sec.
y2o, movement no 6: SMS, 2 min 09 sec.
y2o, movement no 7: un_link, 2 min 53 sec.
y2o, movement no 8: lâcher prise, 3 min 40 sec.
y2o, movement no 9: empty, 3 min 19 sec.

Edition 1/5

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Y2o navigates the troubled waters of shared existence. Unfolding over 9 tableaux, it is an intimate portrait of two individuals’ colliding worlds and a metaphor for the realm between suffocation and exaltation, between alienation and unity. Each chapter explores a love on the verge of drifting - a multimorphic partnership shifting states through the film’s fugue-like narrative. Within Skoltz’s elastic space-time reality, the two individuals endure an emotional game of attraction: one’s actions meet with the other’s retractions until all that remains is an intimate void, the force of their attraction having broken their bond.

y2o finds its rhythm in the intimate yet treacherous territory where an individual decides how much of themselves to conceal or reveal. Either strategy, the film suggests, can result in a disorienting loss or a sobering discovery of one’s self.