Sanya Kantarovsky

Sanya Kantarovsky’s film A Solid House (2022) presents a fragmented narrative that follows the machinations of a humanoid being
seemingly marooned in an affluent domestic environment. The video, which combines 3D computer animation, Super 16mm film, and HD video, incorporates a voiceover monologue adapted from Tibetan Buddhist meditation master Chögyam Trungpa’s seminal series of talks entitled Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism (1973).

A Solid House, which functions as both a critical essay and meditation on the human ego’s entanglement with spirituality, cruelty, aesthetics, and class, has been developed over the course of four years and was initially conceived for the artist’s 2018 exhibition Disease of the Eyes at Kunsthalle Basel. The exhibition at the Aspen Art Museum marks the film’s debut, as well as the artist’s first institutional solo presentation in the United States.