Bill Viola
Watched a video
of the artist talking about his inspiration on Tate shorts
Liked the fact
that he didn’t for ages realize he was referencing a childhood experience and
that this impact on him, a near death experience, flavours his work with a
spiritual element which adds more depth to an already beautiful an eery
approach to his work.
I particularly
liked
Bill Viola -
Tristan's Ascension – 2005
The theatrical
lighting gives this a sense of immediacy or a live performance, which is then
blurred and confused as the viewer struggles to understand what is happening
and how the video is filmed,
It shows a body
prone, covered in white, suggesting a death shroud, water in larger and larger
quantities seems to travel upwards from the figure giving the film a sense of
movement and ascension of the body, as the water density increases, so does the
light intensity, albeit obliterating the previously visible body, adding to the
sense of ‘ascension’.
Unsettling,
dramatic and impactful.
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