Mateo vega

An attempt at mourning both personal and political futures that never arrived, organised around a broad interpretation of the trope of the ghost. We see depersonalised figures, urban ruins, consuming fires and microscopic images of decaying bodily matter; footage was shot in New York, Washington DC, Lima and Amsterdam between 2016 and 2020. Issues like failed neoliberal promises of progress, the rise of fascism, and self-image and adulthood are intuitively brought together, set to a poem that shifts between Spanish and Dutch.