Abattoir, U.S.A.! 2023

Single-channel video, sound, colour, 10 min. 50 sec., 2023. Courtesy of the artist and Greene Naftali, New York.

The film is an Unreal Engine walkthrough of an empty slaughterhouse set to an original score. Unreal Engine is a 3D computer graphics tool used to create real-time environments for a wide range of platforms The title Abattoir, U.S.A!, references the two initial sources of inspiration for the work, French philosopher Georges Bataille and Black American theorist Frank Wilderson, joining or blurring the two contexts.