GHARDY Local Voices Film

Six films are projected onto a black matte surface within a single room, facing one another. The installation GHARDY: Local Voices consists of six hand-drawn landscapes, each representing a different physical and mental perspective that gradually unfolds over the course of the film. Most of the landscapes are divided by a horizontal waterline into upper and lower scenery, separating water from sky, and the subconscious from the conscious.

In the lower half of each drawing, movement stirs as a subterranean light bubble slowly begins to wend its way out from the hole at the bottom. Its motion sets off a stream of waves, carrying light upward from the lower to the upper half of the image. Light rises from the earth’s abyss to the surface. The light bubble embodies a clearer consciousness, striving to illuminate the unprocessed matter lying at the bottom of the image.

The name GHARDY is formed from the initials of the artist’s brothers and sisters. This work continues Sasportas’s long-standing engagement with her nuclear family as a subjective and personal point of departure, transposed into the public domain in coded form. Through the use of anonymous, neutralizing tools—presented to the viewer as panoramic fragments of landscape or mental maps—she conveys the consciousness maps of each sibling, revealing elements that have resisted natural integration and remain unresolved and unsynchronized.

Each drawing reveals a distinct movement and rhythm in the upward flow of light. As the light bubble passes from one subconscious space to another, a black bar accompanies or trails it. Moving seamlessly from screen to screen, they create a continuous motion that fills the room. A specially composed sound completes the installation, uniting the six screens into a single, cohesive work.