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ALEXANDRA PACE
Corridorworld
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2019
Digital video + sound
Duration: 2’ 20’’
Edition 1/3
Courtesy the artist and Blitz Valletta

Alexandra Pace’s Corridorworld (2019) intercepts nightmarish childhood memories by using fragments of corridor scenes from Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. The artist deconstructed the original film script in order to build a scenario where the characters appear confined, stuck in a state of mutual pursuit without resolution. The original audio is replaced by repetitive sound effects that emphasize the lack of any beginning. All of a sudden, the viewer is seized with the instinct to direct the child out of the virtual maze, or manipulate the joystick until reaching a ‘game over’

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