May 2020, Limburg (Belgium). A peasant family is vaccinating their animals.
Concept
A spillover event occurs when a reservoir population with a high prevalence of pathogens comes into contact with a new host population. The human being is the only animal that could face self-extinction: in its desperate search for immortality, it has the ability to delve deeper into a process of modification of itself and of its surroundings. The aspect ratio of the work changes constantly and slowly until the images will become impossible to be watched by the viewer.
Emanuele Dainotti (b. 1987 in Milano, Italy. Lives and works between Antwerpen and Milano) is an artist and filmmaker. Recent exhibitions and festivals include: Museum of the Moving Image (USA); Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil); Het Nieuwe Instituut (Netherlands); Tel Aviv Museum of Art (Israel); Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea (Portugal); Reykjavík International Film Festival (Iceland); Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin (France); Hudson Valley MOCA (USA).
