Robert Kroos

In this work, darkness becomes a canvas where light, scents, visuals, and sound weave a rich sensorial realm. Subtle transitions guide the experience as imagery surfaces and dissolves into darkness. From this formless, spaceless interplay, a liminal presence emerges – wandering yet rooted, merging with fields of light.

'Shunyata' means emptiness.This film reflects the stream of consciousness as a continuous flow of change and transformation. Shunyata is created by layering, constructing, and deconstructing 16mm film footage and analogue wave forms into an immersive, sense-transcending experience, one that through constant change and chaos evokes a sense of deep meditation and timelessness. A white cloud fades in the empty sky.

Echoes Between Seeing is an ongoing audiovisual experiment which combines 16mm travel footage shot in Spain and China with AI image-to-image processes, creating landscapes where analogue film grain meets fluid, generated forms. The original footage is continuously reprocessed, generating imagery that exists between documentation and hallucination.

A continuation of Tetsuya Maruyama’s ongoing research into contemporary mining activities in Brazil and beyond. Multiple 35mm slide projectors cycle through images captured by a Brazilian mining company while being manipulated live by a roving aperture machine made by the artist himself.