WATER ON ASPHALT
1´12´
La cámara graba el proceso de la pintura: el artista pinta directamente en la calle. En lugar de usar pintura acrílica o al óleo, emplea el agua como único material. Gracias al enfoque de la cámara, la aguada inmaterial se hace visible. La superficie del fluido refleja el cielo y los árboles. STATEMENT Soy una videoartista que trabaja en el campo de la video-performance y del video experimental. Investigo los fenómenos de la percepción humana y la influencia ambivalente de la tecnología en nuestras vidas. Mis vídeos tratan de la relación entre el ser humano y la cámara digital; me fascinan los avances de la tecnología y a la vez me preocupan por su enorme influencia con consecuencias que no podemos prever. Mis performance se realizan exclusivamente para la visión limitada de la cámara. |
The camera records the process of painting: the artist is painting directly on the street. Instead of using oil colour or acrylic paint the only material utilised is water. Due to the specific camera angle the immaterial water-painting becomes visible. The fluid surface is reflecting the sky and trees.water The video Water on Asphalt shows the element of reflection illustrating Gilles Deleuze’s concept of the “crystal-image”. This concept is elucidated in Deleuze’s work “The Time-Image – Movie 2“ and formulates the idea of the smallest temporal circuit, which consists of the simultaneity of the real image and its reflection, the actual and the virtual image: “The present is the actual image, the image in a mirror.“ (Cinema 2 , 82). Water on Asphalt shows the artist generating the “image in the mirror”. In the beginning of the video the “actual image” consists of nothing else than asphalt – the material works as an allegory of human domination over nature. Water as one of the most important and precious resources of our time creates the “virtual image” revealing the view of nature. The reflection works like an irritation: it exposes the view of nature as a past image and at the same time as a present reality.Water on Asphalt shows the ambiguity between digital progress and a vanishing nature. It remains a “memento mori” – a virtual memory reflecting the ecological dilemma of our times.. STATEMENT I am a video artist working in the fields of video-performance and experimental video. I investigate the phenomena of human perception and the ambivalent influence of technology on our lives combining current digital video fleetingness of our times. My videos deal with the relation between the human being towards the digital camera, I am at the same time fascinated by the progress of technology and scared by its enormous influence on our lives with consequences we cannot foresee. My performances are exclusively made for the limited view of the camera. |