Ratman writes, “My videos and installations aim to deal with untenable aspects of human behavior by exploring the appearance of pain, struggle and the wild. Pushing narrative to it borders and allowing for a fractured chain of events to take place, functions as a vehicle for me to explore the friction between the real and the imaginary. Violating the correlation between cause and effect, my videos undermine trust in the cinematic apparatus, and opening a space for the poetic and the pathetic to coexist.
I see my work as a political attempt to subvert the cultural mechanisms that generate meaning and the language by which we engage reality and to position myself as an opposing force to the obsessions with “nowness” that is expounded by the media and the dialectic binary approach endorsed by it.” (MOMA PS1 statement)
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