La Ritirata 2009 Install //top\\ Jun 2026

The ritualistic, slow-motion quality (the video is slightly slowed down) makes every gesture heavy with meaning. The way a man adjusts his jacket before sitting. The slight hesitation of another at the door. You start imagining stories: Are they rehearsing something? Remembering someone? Waiting for a lesson that will never come?

The repeating pattern suggests that history is not linear but a cycle. The retreat, the disaster, the collapse—it happens, then it resets, and it happens again. For a 2009 work, this was a potent commentary on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the financial crash, and the constant 24-hour news cycle of catastrophe. la ritirata 2009 install