Powerplant- What Gives You Energy?
​2023

Video
Directed and edited by:
​Lucia Westphal, Miina Barrera Pinochet, Gahee Chung

People breathe in and out…
The power plant burns and emits...
Earth and plants breathe, absorb and transform...

The video project is inspired by the intertwining of nature and man - natural and artificial coexistence. The idea comes from the English term powerplant, which literally means an energy power station, while the word plant also means vegetation. This is an interesting twist of language that we would like to explore further.

The work is inspired by the Kassel power station and the nearby overgrown forest valley.

The video piece has been screened at "Roaminale #3" at Roam gallery in Berlin in 2024; and at the exhibition "Guilty of Cardboard Pleasures" Hafenstrasse 76 in Kassel, 2023.