Escalate

Video Sculpture

“Escalate” is a small video sculpture of an escalator with a never ending stream of people traveling somewhere unknown. I wanted to create an artwork that represents ritualized movement, migration and escape.

In a world where we are witnessing the collapse of systems, asynchronous reactions to crisis, algorithmic prophecy, pseudoscience, and technology as an emotional prosthetic, maybe we’re all on the never ending escalator moving upwards or downwards towards everywhere and nowhere.