Postproduction, 2009

“In Postproduction we find the confused observer; the artist who gets buried under a mass of appropriated art, until one loses sight of her. The artist falls into the stream of mass-produced art, which is escalated by the art world’s and this era’s struggle to keep up with the speed of production in this mechanized society.

The character in the movie walks around slowly and retrospectively considers the artworks from past and present time around her; while thinking about her distinctive role in this machine assembled, recycled, and appropriated art world.

Machines increasingly blot out human labor from everyday life, providing them with more and expeditiously produced products. Having played her part, the artist as a human being gets obscured by the continued appearance of other artist’s artworks which are made of either recycled materials or pre-existing concepts, in the room.

At the end one finds a room filled with a mass of thoughts and pieces that are combined in to a single artwork, emphasizing the role played by the network of selves we call society in contemporary art. In other words, the artist gives away her self to an integral of selves becoming one with them. 

Sona Safaei