(Bat Wool,
video, 5’55’’, 2019)
The work shows the “beginning”: the moment
when our planet was explored through expansion of the Western
European civilization and the conquests it involved, whose authentic
accounts may be found in such books as Marco Polo’s Travels,
Relazione del primo viaggio intorno al mondo by
Antonio Pigafetta, or Relation
of the Discovery and Conquest of the Kingdoms of Peru
by Pedro Pizarro. Excerpts from original descriptions in those
volumes provide the textual layer of the work, describing the very
first encounter of Europeans with unknown civilizations, an encounter
which largely led to their subsequent annihilation.
