DEPARTMENT OF ARTISTIC AFFAIRS — ISSUE 001: EXCESS We are pleased to share Department of Artistic Affairs, Elephant Vision Lab’s first art magazine. Featuring works from our Excess open call, an interview with photographer Gigi Zhang, current projects, and future opportunities.
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Amberstiche is a moving image work that brings together filmed performance and digital environments, creating a slow, atmospheric space where movement fades into stillness and presence lingers in transition. Through repeated gestures and layered imagery, the work connects to ideas of excess as something that builds over time. The accumulation of bodies, movements, and digital traces creates a sense of saturation, where nothing fully disappears or resolves. Instead, the figures remain held in a state that feels both still and ongoing. The idea of excess is also reflected
Amberstiche thematically, as this piece ultimately points to the fragility of our ecosystem, shaped by the accumulation of human actions and overproduction. What begins as repetition and layering gradually builds into a sense of imbalance, where excess no longer sustains but overwhelms, leaving the figures suspended in a state that feels both preserved and endangered. In the end, all fossilized animals turn into a tree that seems both sacred and grotesque, a final form where life, decay, and accumulation merge into something at once reverent and unsettling.