MY HOME MY TORTURE III — LIVING THROUGH LA FIRES
Video art · sound · photography · installation · interactivity · performance
2026
Selected for exhibition & shortlisted for the Video Art Category Award — Chengdu International Digital Light Art Festival 2026 (22/300 submissions)
Nature Doesn't Read Zip Codes.
My Home My Torture III transforms the aftermath of the Los Angeles wildfires into a meditation on calm after disaster, memory, radical equality, and renewal. Developed from the artist’s firsthand experience of the fires, the work moves between documentary reality and ritual, asking what remains when homes, histories, and the structures that separate us disappear.
ABOUT THE WORK
The project continues Lenka Moravková’s long-term My Home My Torture series, which examines the unstable relationship between home, safety, memory and the environments we construct around ourselves.
In LA Fires, the home is no longer simply a psychological or social space. It becomes physically vulnerable — reduced to ash, fragments and traces.
The work combines video, photography, field recordings, voice, sound and performative interventions created within fire-affected landscapes. Moravková appears in a reflective emergency-like costume that simultaneously evokes protection, survival, ritual and an altered post-disaster body.
The project develops around several interconnected ideas: grief and renewal, deleted memory, radical equality, the fierce power of nature, and the readjustment of human priorities after loss.
Rather than treating nature as a passive landscape surrounding human life, My Home My Torture III positions it as an autonomous force capable of disrupting the economic and social systems through which we assign value to places — and to one another.
The work takes several forms, from photographic exhibitions and video art presentations to an evolving immersive installation combining moving image, sound, photography, sculptural elements and live activation. Its full-scale immersive iteration is currently in development for a future institutional premiere.
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
2026 — Chengdu International Digital Light Art Festival, China
Selected for exhibition as part of the festival’s Video Art selection. Shortlisted for the Video Art Category Award — 22 works selected from 300 submissions.
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