Metaescala

The audiovisual work Metaescala is a reflection on perception, memory, and the reinterpretation of reality within a digital reproduction environment, based on 3D records obtained through photogrammetry. The work emerges from an attempt to assemble visual indexes that refer to significant moments of a shared experience. Objects and landscapes were scanned and transposed into a virtual environment. Through digital manipulation, scale is subverted—natural constructions and volumes are converted into miniatures, becoming at once a habitable space and an object that inhabits.
The use of the house architecture and furniture assumes a dual role as both object and display, pointing to the origins of photogrammetry as a technique that gives body to the image plane. The soundscape was composed from field recordings and edited through a type of montage that deepens immersion, producing narrative jumps and phase shifts. The relationship between sound and objects oscillates between direct indexical connection (between sound and image) and more open interpretations, ranging from the distanced perception of a viewer facing a model to a sensorial immersion within the digital environment.
Metaescala was presented in the exhibition “E se nada houvesse entre nós” (“What if nothing stood between us”) in November 2022, and was developed during the artist residency at Silo Arte e Latitude Rural (Serrinha do Alambari, Brazil), as part of the collaborative program between Silo, Bananal, and Residência das Plantas (Vitória, Espírito Santo).