Gioconda explores the plight of recent immigrants who work long hours doing menial jobs as part of an invisible economy long after emigration. The video charts Gioconda’s every movement as she ardently cleans a hotel room. Gioconda metaphorically elevates the banal tasks of cleaning, exploring the larger philosophical questions often posed by existential literature—how is life ascribed meaning and what if anything is left behind. The soundtrack mixes cleaning sounds with sampled tracks from Hollywood border films evoking Gioconda’s own crossing from Mexico into the US.
Projects > Gioconda, 2007
All images © Karina Aguilera Skvirsky 2008 |
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