Road Trip to the End of the World
by Ana Vilela da Costa, Maria Leite and Martim Ramos
Road Trip to the End of the World is a performative video installation that reflects on the paradoxes of our time. The work explores themes of apathy, exhaustion, and the spectacle of the end times. Moving through ruined landscapes and moments of everyday normality, the installation questions our place in a world that appears to be collapsing before our eyes.
The work creates a visual and sonic environment reminiscent of a road trip. The audience becomes a complicit witness, observing catastrophe from a distance, as the landscapes evoke an aesthetic of the sublime in ruins.
Road Trip to the End of the World is a meditation on collapse and ambivalence. It reflects the sense of powerlessness that characterizes contemporary Western society, while also pointing to a paradoxical desire for freedom. The road functions as a space of escape and confrontation, anesthesia and awakening.
