Friday, June 29, 2007

Art Marathon Part 4 - Lynette Wallworth - Hold:Vessel 2, 2007 - BFI

Still in the BFI, I wandered into an installation by Lynette Wallworth called Hold:Vessel 2, 2007.

Me and Ms Wallworth, I think we share the same punctuation culture.

I loved this.

At the entrance you pick up a large white glass bowl (the bowls sit in a golden glow on a black pedestal, beautifully lit from above) and wander gropingly into a thickly black room (echoing in negative the experience of Gormley’s negative Blind Light box).

Four showers of light fall from the ceiling, like the early stages of transportation in Star Trek. The idea is that you catch the images in your bowl. The images are microscopic, organismic, liquidy. A heavy ambient soundtrack fills the room.






As a method of presentation of images, how much more interesting this is than the image wall. And as a method of projecting video art, how much more imaginative than Mathew Buckingham.





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