Emmanuelle Antille
dal 13/6/2002 al 18/8/2002
Segnalato da
13/6/2002
Emmanuelle Antille
Contemporary Art Centre - CAC, Vilnius
As deep as our sleep, as fast as our heart is a video installation constituted by five video projections, three screens, two monitors and eight low sofas. All the videos are connected to each other to create one fiction, one narrative surrounding. It shows the rituals between a mother and her daughter, their relationships toward sleep and awakening, dream and reality.
["As deep as our sleep, as fast as our heart"]
[Curator]: Kestutis Kuizinas
As deep as our sleep, as fast as our heart is a video installation
constituted by five video projections, three screens, two monitors and
eight low sofas. All the videos are connected to each other to create
one fiction, one narrative surrounding. It shows the rituals between a
mother and her daughter, their relationships toward sleep and awakening,
dream and reality. They live in an apartment they transformed into a
kind of cocoon, out of the real world, in which they nourish themselves
with their own fantasy.
In the middle of the exhibition room are three projections on three
translucid screens. It is the heart of the installation, the center
point where the narration takes place. These synchronized videos show
different points of view of the same sequence, like a three-dimensional
movie spread in space. Here the mother and her daughter perform various
rituals. The images start by the mother waking her daughter up then
following her to the bathroom. They caress each other's face, as if they
wanted to feel the passing of time on the other's face. Then the mother
washes her daughter's back and gets her back into her bed. She covers
her with a red dress and takes her shoes off. Then she puts them on and
starts to dance in the living room while the girl is asleep.
The fact that these gestures are repeated and looped increases their
habitual and codified side. It appears like a routine. The staging and a
certain symbolism (the red dress, the gesture) enhance the closeness
between reality and imagination. The setting of the three screens allows
the viewers to be surrounded by the images, to immerge themselves into
the actions from different angles at the same time.
Two other projections are placed on the wall on each side of the room.
They have different functions: a frame, a scenery and a temporal
indication. They present some urban landscapes from the windows of the
two women's house, continuously passing from dusk to dawn. They show
also some peaceful shots of the two women asleep.
Two monitors are placed in the corners of the room. In front of them,
along the walls, eight low beds/sofas can be used by the spectator to
sit or lie down. The monitors introduce other rituals at night between
the two women (the mother biting the daughter's leg, the daughter
dancing for her mother, the two observing the neighbour's windows). The
editing is very carved up and fast. The content functions like flashes
of memory or pieces of dreams.
The main purpose of the architectural display is to allow the
apprehension of the mother-daughter relationships in various ways, from
several angles, in their different forms, according to their own
intensity and plasticity. The viewers are then able to position
themselves physically closer, as to reach the dreamy state of mind
created by the images and their assembling. As to immerge themselves in
a kind of opium den.
Opening of the exhibition: 14 June, 6 pm.
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