Immersive, timeless, eminently mystical and sensual, Bill Viola’s work fascinates us as a lot as it upsets us. Fascinating by its monumentality and the solemn slowness of the pictures, it submerges us in a flood of rain and dreamlike or cataclysmic streams, making us capsize in the wreckage of our bodies and thoughts.&
For Invoice Viola, who likes to tell of the dazzlement he felt in entrance of the great thing about the world transfigured by the blue mild, the underwater mild, when he was saved from drowning at the age of six, water is an allegory of life. From start to dying, it's “a journey by means of life”, via area and time, that each of his exhibitions presents. Like Charon in Greek mythology main the souls of the lifeless in his boat to the opposite aspect of life, Invoice Viola leads us, not into the afterlife, however on the impermanent river of time to plunge us into the “great nicely” of the human condition.&
A dive in the literal sense as a result of for him all the things that's fluid incorporates life, every little thing fluid is a dwelling drive: the blood that flows in our veins, the electrical stream that circulates in the wires and cables (invisible) feeding his videos … Thus, fairly naturally, the American artist began to conceive his paintings in movement and his monumental video installations as actual immersive works.&
If from 1973 to not lock his movies in a field, he tasks them on giant surfaces, they'll soon tackle monumental dimensions, giving his dwelling paintings the facet of gigantic shifting frescoes.&
As if devoid of gravity, they compose a type of huis-clos, floating spaces, out of time, through which the spectators are invited to immerse themselves and let themselves be invaded by the feelings aroused by the unusual aquatic choreography of submerged our bodies streaming or bursting into flame.
This strangeness born of the enlargement and slowing down of the image – but in addition of its multiplication and its steady metamorphosis, between look and disappearance -, accentuated by the theatricalization of the settings and postures evoking the Mannerist portray of the top of the Renaissance, provides to those sequences of life the symbolic energy of goals.&
Exhibition at the Amos Rex Museum in Helsinki&
Till February 27, 2022
www.amosrex.fi
Stéphanie Dulout
L’article Bill Viola : Exhibition Submersible est apparu en premier sur Galerie Joseph.
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