Efforts of Nature

Morgan Quaintance, winner of the 2020 New:Vision Award, returns to CPH:DOX with a new and evocative work that combines found footage, analogue 16mm and satellite imagery – not to mention loops and repeats – in an investigation of temporal processes from two radically different perspectives: the physical being of the body and the planetary, geological conditions. Change and dissolution pave the way for new becomings in ‘Efforts of Nature’, which with a rhythmic and almost pulsating force insists on perception itself as a medium for new and transcendent insights. In a short period of time and with a number of striking film and video works, Quaintance has reached a unique level of abstraction, which here is allowed to reach new and dizzying heights.