Fall

Fall comprises video footage documenting a series of propositional actions performed by Kristaps Ancāns and Marc Hulson in Epping Forest on 10 October 2025. Installed in the gallery space alongside handmade wooden objects resembling balloons, the work records the pair testing possibilities of placement or physical relationship with similar artefacts within the forest environment. Presented sequentially, a quiet tension is generated between purpose and outcome—as if testing the limits of how an object, a body, or an idea can situate itself when the surroundings refuse to cooperate.

Their interactions function simultaneously as a game, a negotiation, and a fragile choreography of trust. The forest itself is not presented as a natural space, but as a constructed ecosystem of illusions: light, foliage, confusing paths, and objects that behave unpredictably. As they engage in simple actions—passing, placing or balancing objects, chasing, imitating each other—these actions grow increasingly symbolic. Their play oscillates between cooperation and competition, revealing dynamics of vulnerability, power, and companionship. Viewers are left unsure whether they are testing each other, testing the environment, or being tested by it.

This shifting set of relations - between actions, objects and environment - suggests a phenomenological enquiry, reflecting on contemporary conditions: how humans relate within unstable systems, how trust is built and broken, and how play can both reveal and disguise deeper structures of meaning.

Fall is part of an iterative series of collaborative works by Kristaps Ancāns & Marc Hulson.

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