floating position (overview)

by Ben Moren

Ben Moren’s interdisciplinary work melds performance, film, and sculpture. In this film, a figure vigorously tries to stay afloat as it travels down a river in wintertime. Moren’s film engages with the frame of the monitor: as the figure moves from one to the next, it briefly vanishes from view before it reappears, creating a momentary worry that perhaps it has been pulled beneath the water’s surface by the current. The swimming figure is a tiny white dot in a broad field of dark water and recalls how incredibly small we are compared to the vast expanse of the landscape. In this work, Moren asks us to consider how people as stewards of the natural world can and should exist within it.