Author: Valentina Lacmanović
Soundtrack: Ranko Šajfar
Assistant camera and editing: Amir Grabus

Production: LeCNAM Paris 2019
https://www.arts-et-metiers.net/musee/armillae-video-performance-de-valentina-lacmanovic

ARMILLAE is a 6 channel immersive video performance that adapts to various locations.
Initially it was commissioned by "Musée National des Arts et Métiers" Le CNAM, Paris for the hall containing the permanent collection of Scientific Instruments in the Museum.

The projections transform the space by creating a disorientating immersion, haunting atmosphere and shifting the perception of the space and time. Projected on the walls, floor and ceiling, the artwork engages with the architecture, blurring the boundary between the projected fiction and the reality of the visitor's surroundings.

In repositioning the body to the center of the spheric space, marked by the movement of the planets and stars within the galaxy, the artist creates shadows that become reality, questioning our capacity to differentiate between what is real and what is fake - the source and… its shadow.

Just as if we entered Plato’s cave, each one of us becomes a centre of our own galaxy, weaving our reality with reflections of our subjective perceptions.

In times of post-truth, reconnecting with the allegory of the cave echoes the importance of the comment rather than the accuracy of the information in a poetic way, immersing the spectator into a dance with elements and motion of our universe.