S.

S. is a hybrid of art installation, live cinema, and performance, created inside an empty Upper West Side brownstone that I reconfigured into a drifting, otherworldly station. The space was equipped with two live cameras and two static ones, generating a layered visual architecture. The audience entered an intimate screening room where the two main feeds were projected on the front wall, subtly overlapping. Additional surveillance-style camera feeds illuminated the side walls, amplifying the sense of displacement. A musician—who was also part of the cast—performed the live score.

At its heart, S. is both a love story and a metaphysical meditation on humanity, memory, and time. The piece unfolds between the real and its abstracted double, inviting viewers into a charged, unstable landscape. As in Tarkovsky’s film, the work opens onto an alternate dimension—one that challenges perception, interrogates consciousness, and ultimately confronts the fragile, luminous essence of human existence.