A SHORT WINTER Bled, 2006

Video: 2:20
Object: refrigerator, plastic bucket with slowly melting frozen shoes

Lake Bled, situated between high mountains, is the most touristic spot in Slovenia. It presents a very picturesque setting, with a church and bell tower on a little island in the middle of the lake. Many people like to compare it to a Swiss landscape. This year the winter was very cold and the lake was frozen. In the video I am dancing in high-heel shoes in the middle of the lake, with a big ball in my hands. The lake's sudden transformation from ice to water does not seem to surprise me as I find myself suddenly swimming. The world - and our perspective on it - is in a constant state of change, so that often things are not the way we see them. There is also an allusion to climate change: Who knows when the lake will be frozen again?