Ornaments of Property is a 16mm film loop in five chapters. Filmed in digital video and transferred to analog 16mm film, each sequence depicts mural fragments of collected DVD/CD drives as unitary bricks forming mixed ornamental languages—stripped of original cultural/national genealogy through time, space, and artistic re-interpretation.
In modern ruins, discarded devices appear as archaeological artifacts. Emptied containers reveal how memories contain and are contained. The analog film depicts its digital doppelgänger, contrasting material frames with immaterial files while ruins morph from ancient architectures into floating spaceships, endowing discarded tech with mystery, animism, and commodity fetishism.
For further readings Surface Structures: Memory, Mimicry, and the Non-Archive by Alena Alexandrova
Ornaments of Property was supported by the Netherlands Film Fund
'Plastic Myths', ACC Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, KR, curated by Ji Yoon Yang
