ARARA
2017, Berlin. Video, color, audio, 9:35 min Full HD format.
2017, Berlin. Video, color, audio, 9:35 min Full HD format.
A forest. A cave. A woman and her bird skin. A body animated by past and future lives.
A woman is so immersed into the video game on her mobile phone - in which her bird-avatar has to gobble up the golden coins floating in a gorge - that her own movements gradually come to resemble a bird in herself. What might become of us humans if we increasingly approach „nature“ as a screen-based virtual reality?
![2017, ARARA. Video, 9:35 min. Film Still. © Barbara Marcel](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6d42450b7931ce2601b22c07fd6cc09edaf40ce912bb156c4b7105d2bca51f8c/ARARA_Still_1.jpg)
![2017, ARARA. Video, 9:35 min. Film Still. © Barbara Marcel](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/215f59538f7505895a5a48c5d87afaec82df2769d9c37a407537ad231e28c7fb/ARARA_still_2.jpg)
![2017, ARARA. Installation view at the group exhibition “Disappearing Legacies: The World As A Forest”, at Zoologisches Museum Hamburg.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cd83e5cf708269dda179322ef5932a376f500dda5dfea3ad72fbffe0e11c13c8/Reassembling-the-Natural-Verschwindende-Vermachtnisse--Arara--Hamburg.jpg)
![2017, ARARA. Installation view at the group exhibition "Reassembling the Natural" at Tieranatomisches Theater, Berlin.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6387c42eb38b0219eb528b18d58e68e2ed5445db911866bf939e8e3fd64df7f1/ARARA--2017.-Installation-view-at-the-group-exhibition-Resembling-Nature-at-Tieranatomisches-Theater--Berlin.-2.jpg)
![2017, ARARA. Installation view at the group exhibition "Reassembling the Natural" at Tieranatomisches Theater, Berlin.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c4043b661e2aa387257b2ba62e31a58763952619346d59faa18acaf3c439d24a/Installation-view-at-the-group-exhibition-Disapearing-Legacies--The-World-As-A-Forest--at-Zoologisches-Museum-Hamburg..jpg)
![2017, ARARA. Exhibition at the solo show TROPIC MATTERS at V240 Amsterdam, February 2017.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d9a1e0eb887243efbb4f48cfe1b0dc4cc1bc125133fe63b26a81411633206fe3/3_DSC07062.jpg)
![2017, ARARA. Exhibition at the solo show TROPIC MATTERS at V240 Amsterdam, February 2017.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d996e31576a6e2f9ad53610817bc9e2f2f1d2e96efae9b4a7d8682f25c0a04bf/2_DSC0672.jpg)