ELLINOR ÅSLUND
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The Hoarder
2021. Video, 13 min
Excerpt from The Hoarder
The video essay The Hoarder is a montage combining melted together 3d scans of my uncleaned room, mobile phone videos of hands touching materials and things, and scrolling on wikipedia. The voice-over of a hoarder moves from the urge to hoard things, to a raging anti-cleaning manifesto which analyzes the faults of cleaning through personal stories, well-known anticleaners and personal theory. A battle cry for th poetic in the dirty and unusable, adding to the feminist issue of household labor.
Supposed to be screened in my uncleaned studio at the art achademy, the original behind the 3d model, due to corona lock down it had to be screened online instead, adding its own meaning to the rant against cleanlyness.