Tanya Mordacci

The Spirit Realm

2022

The Spirit Realm is the continuation of her previous work, a video-installation called LA BRUJA/ THE WITCH. 

In La Bruja/The Witch, a woman is pulled by the umbilical cord of female lineage into the traps of the mind. The cultural, social and gender “must be” attachments are to be observed, reacted upon, and from within the eye of the subconscious, violently, broken free from.  

The Spirit Realm video opens with that same woman, now as an adult-fetus, floating in the no-space/no time field, her umbilical cord already detached from all cultural atavisms.  

Guided by Mother Nature, the power of the flora, fauna, and a hummingbird (spiritual animal for Aztec warriors) as her Virgil, Fetus is encouraged to make the choice onto Self-rebirth. 

An on-going project, The Spirit Realm is the second piece of a septalogue that speaks about the exploration of Identity, Healing, the Self, and the different states of consciousness through the magical imagery of the oneiric language.