Lucien Ravelo De Tovar

Shot on 16mm, Ad Vitam unfolds in a remote field where a small group gathers for an unconventional funeral. At the center of the ceremony stands a transparent greenhouse—a fragile mausoleum for a fading memory. As a woman delivers a poetic monologue, daylight slowly gives way to dusk. When night falls and the mourners disperse, a lone figure steps forward to paint the greenhouse black, methodically erasing every surface until light, memory, and structure vanish into darkness. A meditation on disappearance, posterity, and the quiet rituals of forgetting.

 

The installation elevates the greenhouse to become a portable mausoleum