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Videos
Longing Ghosts in Deep Blue Paranoia
Color, sound, 13 min Sound composed and performed by Eilert Asmervik, words and voice by Estelle Hoy. Anaïs Horn’s work complex Longing Ghosts in Deep Blue Paranoia (2022) is dedicated to Charlotte of Belgium and Mexico. The educated, ambitious and beautiful Princess spent some years in the castle of Miramare (IT) after her wedding to Maximilian of Austria, before he 1864 became emperor of Mexico—where their tragic story started to unfold. Being caught in a hopeless political situation and suffering from a lack of love and unfulfilled motherhood, she was haunted by paranoia and diagnosed mentally ill at the age of 26. After the execution of Maximilian (1867) she lived 50 more years in isolation. In the photographic series Horn is exploring the secret memories of the rooms, the furniture and the objects in the castle, haunted emotions—omnipresent and resonating in the stage-like rooms—the uncanny of the past, the presence of the absent, that might appear as ghostly matter in reflections, dead angles and blurs. The photographs are printed on mirrors and set in antique frames in collaboration with the traditional Triestinian frame builder Parmiani. She installed and filmed secret interventions in the Miramare park, floating ghost-like objects with surveillance camera optics—referring to Charlottes state of mind. The soundscape, composed by Eilert Asmervik, includes voice recordings by writer Estelle Hoy, who contributed to the project with the poetic text Princess-cut diamonds.Added on: July 31, 2025