Psicostasis

Psicostasis is an audiovisual piece created in collaboration with composer Pablo Martín Freiberg.

Psychostasis refers to the act of weighing souls to determine their fate. Although this mythical representation originated in ancient Egypt, the notion of an evaluative judgment of souls after death recurs in later cultures, such as classical Greece.

The work dismantles the scene of judgment. Rather than reconstructing the myth or seeking an allegorical meaning, Psicostasis proposes an unstable space between the digital and the organic, the measurable and the living. An essay on presence and the virtual.

The piece unfolds an ambivalent dialogue between image and sound. Neither language seeks to illustrate the other. They inhabit a territory where technology does not serve as an explanatory tool but as a sensitive interface—one that enables ambiguity, resonance, and suspension. A crumbling curtain, the body of an animal, a digital grid, spinning particles and knives: these presences place us in a zone where forms dissolve and the boundaries—between body, matter, and environment—become permeable.

Through the intersection of algorithmic structures and material sensitivity, Psicostasis aligns with a practice that interrogates the digital environment as a space of indeterminacy. Technology approaches ritual: a platform for thinking the unnameable.

4K, 16 synchronized channels, 8.06′, 2025.

 

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