6. Disillusioned
  1’55”, digital video, variable dimensionsThe inspiration for this project came from the observation of how mistakes are repeatedly corrected yet never fully eliminated—each correction leaves behind a trace. This process echoes Derrida’s notion of “under erasure”, where meaning is simultaneously erased and preserved, never fully disappearing.

Through the case of NEETs (Not in Education, Employment, or Training), the work examines how structural mismatches, economic instability, and lack of social mobility create a cycle of exclusion. Erasure here becomes both a lived reality and a metaphor for how individuals and communities are left in-between: neither fully recognized, nor fully erased.

Methodologically, the project adopts a performative approach, combining a virtual narrator’s voice with fragments of found poetry, selectively “erasing” parts of text to generate new meaning.

This experimental exploration invites viewers to reflect on the tension between social precarity and the persistence of identity, revealing how acts of erasure expose the fragility of today’s cultural and social order.