The show evolves around two centers or poles; each is comprised of two video works. ”Rain of Meteorites,” a video-sound interactive installation, and another video projection.
The interactive installation unfolds as a sort of cosmic plasma through which sounds and images merge together and are triggered by the viewers’ interaction (presence in the gallery’s space). The movement and fall of Meteorites, seen on the video screen, are contrasted with hovering aluminum cast rocks, which are statically hanging from the ceiling. The hovering rocks are simulated from the video and in turn are fed back to the computer for texture.
The other video titled ”Rain of Meteorites” is a work, which presents what seems like a documentary reportage that informs us about the fall of meteorites on the Tel-Aviv-Jaffa road. This hallucinatory documentary exemplifies the paradoxical relation to catastrophe, which combines violence and indifference in equal measure. Between the interactive installation and the video work unfolds a micro-macro realm, which we occupy and construct.
”The hypnotist” is also a twofold work that combines interactive video-sound installation with sculpture and a video. The installation contains a ”drop-like” crystal glass displayed on an iron cylinder, which conveys an embryonic form. The ”drop” perpetually reoccurs in the video as a ”drop in heaven”, which dives, or falls, through the atmospheric clouds into the sea-bottom. The presence/absence of the viewers affect this video’s unfolding.
The other video presents a series of people that are perpetually put to sleep, hypnotized, by a periodic ”drop” that transform itself in form and place. Soon, this apparent hypnosis uncovers an infinite loop of images, which haunt and mesmerize the viewer. The image of the ”drop”, in itself, becomes the medium of hypnosis. ”The hypnotist” deals with the power of suggestion of technology and the media in forming our conscious, as much as our subliminal, experience.
The rapport of ”Rain of Meteorites” and ”The Hypnotist” is a polar relation between light and darkness, opacity and transparency, apocalypse (revelation) and becoming, fall and liberation. The works fall under a cyber-gnostic spell.
Adam Berg.
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