مهسا بیگلو-I was once Sisyphus
The news tornado drags me into a black hole
The news hits differently when you’re part of a diaspora. It feels like living two lives at once: one here, one there. During times of conflict, that split becomes even harder to bear.
This video installation uses found footage from American news broadcasts covering the Middle East. The footage is projected onto layers of half-transparent film taken out of used flat-screen TVs. The moving images flicker, blur, and overlap—just like the way information reaches us, distorted and incomplete.
The work reflects on how media shapes perception, and how certain regions or people can be minimized, misrepresented, or quietly erased. The recycled materials themselves—once part of devices made to deliver news—become witnesses to that distortion.