water
CAVE Gallery
Detroit, Michigan, USA
February 19, 2014
Clock (installation view)
video projection, 60:00:00
Water(installation view)
video projection, 01:27:33
Water Lilies, Evening Effect
colored sand, 27'w x 30'h
Clock
Water
Stills from Water
This work was made as a response to the technological advancements of the modern world, and it’s incessent attempts to produce and reproduce real-ity almost fawlessly, seamlessly, like water. There were four elements in the exhibition: the space, two projections and a sand painting on the ground. One projection uses an image of a second life character, rotating continuously for one hour, essentially functioning as a clock. The other projection is a 90 minute film that edits and manipulates the uncanny renditions of a full game on EA Sports NHL 14. The sand painting was a reproduction of Waterlilies by Claude Monet, referencing the tendency and intention for art to mirror and reproduce what is already real; throughout the duration of the exhibition, this sand painting became manipulated by the visitors. The flm water, and its slowed down movements, zoom in and out of the composition, abstracting the viewers expectation of this imagery as the size of the players begin to look like fies on the face of the rink, the audio and its relation to wild beasts. As the flm presents an entire game from start to fnish, there is an absense of the usual concern, for the score or the plays; instead, there is a zooming in to the details of the rink, fnding what looks like eyes and faces. A strong infuence for the development of this body of work stemmed from an interest in the potential for neurosis and paranoia to abstract reality, deconstruct language and provide new viewpoints, breaking down the established to achieve new perspectives, new poetries, in the modern world.
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