Using slow camera movement in 20 minutes in five video scenes of completely CGI-rendered environment called Area of Universal Latency, I am mapping space-time of the zone which is located in the north-western Slovakia. Minimalistic narration of the autonomous single-channel video projection is confronting subjectivism with universality of the Anthropocene, vanitas and spirituality with the belief of consumerism in infinite accumulation and simulacra of virtuality with the absolute truth. The story of this video-poem is communicated through virtual environment, composed sounds and natural noises. This thesis is presenting a fragment of my attempt to record the morphology of the specific place through which, as the title of the video states, I am indicating the state of reality and its consequences yet not describing it explicitly.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This Master Degree Thesis aims to identify how a small set taken from a series of contemporary artworks, considered by some authors as "contemporary Vanitas" is characterized formal, symbolic and thematically, delving to evidence how the today s art can incorporate its historical past and especially the Vanitas traditional theme. The study, using an iconographic approach based on the method of Erwin Panofsky, primarily noted that the analyzed group of artworks, besides incorporating other themes with that of traditional Vanitas, showed a great formal distance from the ancient Vanitas paintings. The survey also verified that these artworks do not take the traditional Vanitas only by displaying the same symbolic motifs of the theme, but in fact, by the apprehension of its idea, which can be summarized as the confrontation between the man's vanity and the transience of his earthly life. / Esta pesquisa de mestrado se propõe a identificar como um pequeno conjunto retirado de uma série de obras de arte contemporânea, consideradas por alguns autores como Vanitas contemporâneas se caracteriza formal, simbólica e tematicamente, buscando evidenciar como a arte atual pode incorporar seu passado histórico e, especialmente, o tradicional tema da Vanitas. O estudo, por meio de uma abordagem iconográfica baseada no método de Erwin Panofsky, constatou principalmente que o grupo de obras analisado, além de incorporar outros temas junto ao da Vanitas tradicional, apresentou uma grande distância formal das Vanitas antigas. A pesquisa também verificou que estas obras não assumem a Vanitas tradicional apenas pela exibição dos mesmos motivos simbólicos da temática, mas sim pela apreensão de sua ideia, que pode ser sintetizada como o confronto entre as vaidades do homem e a efemeridade de sua vida terrena.