A video art by Miri Nishri. One day, as the artist went slowly down the steps to her studio, once a public underground bomb shelter, she suddenly felt moistness on her foot. The moistness thickened as she went further down. Before she knew it, she found herself in the middle of her studio plunged in water up to her knees. The sight was astonishing and terrifying at the same time: everything she had created and worked on was floating around her in silence. Only the shimmering light on the water, and the slight trembling created by her movements and breath, instilled some life into the works. While the artist's soul yearned for the enchanting beauty of the catastrophe, her body attempted to hold on to her works, until it could no longer. In this video water is the bearer of self-destruction, consumer of life, art and everything. The constructive and destructive forces held by water at the same time, give it an almost unearthly essence, as bringer of both life and death. The video shows both aspects of water and uses them to reflect upon life, loneliness and art.
The work was screened in a video installation called The Last Transfer in the Frame
of "OpenART", 2015 International art Biennale , Orebro, Sweden
The "Last Transfer" video installation consists of three video works and a "bombed" space, full of rubble. The three works express the individual's struggle for survival against superior forces beyond his control, and although each work was created separately, in retrospect they became one apocalyptic trilogy.
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