DIVA'S GENESIS
«Genesis», the new journey through the space-time of Diva’s mutant world, is a trip back to the origin after the end. Presented as an at times imaginary narration, dark tale or futurist fable, her new project addresses the resurgence of life after the holocaust.
A planet with an unearthly atmosphere, landscapes that could be lunar, interplanetary or infernal, giving the gift of existence, a flash of life, to new beings composed of the same matter as their own world. Together, cosmic membranes, ectoplasm or molecular exchange, constitute the eternal flow of matter and antimatter between these creatures and their habitat. Organic phantoms, visible forms composed of mere intangible texture
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Delicate humanoid live together, strolling along in perpetual movement, like grieving spirits, deprived of material stability and of the human condition of feelings. On this dream-like planet, the inhabitants have to pay the price for the destruction to which civilization leads the Earth. The new unbodies can only feel loneliness, emptiness and solitary confinement.
A post-apocalyptic cosmogony in which beauty blends a futuristic view of digital aesthetics with a luxurious vision of metaphysics.
A fine balance in which pain, darkness and restlessness share the stage with poetry, sensuality and not forgetting, hope.
Biblical places, portrayals of human decadence and reflections of the prevailing hyper-reality of today’s world all combine to inspire an alerting dream: we are part of a biosphere where we limit ourselves to making the most of it, making our mother a mere stepdaughter servant in a trite fairytale. Reality defies fiction.
Doomed like robots heading toward nothingness within the vertigo of contemporary society, «Genesis» claims a return to spirituality.
This is done not from the point of view of a non-traditional critique, but instead from the elevated position we are led to by the serene contemplation of a both sublime and worrying beauty.
Alex Brahim
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