Ocean without a Shore, by Bill Viola

Bill Viola, pioneiro da video art, as suas imagens são um íman. Fortes, sem agressividade, e únicas sem serem exibicionistas. Diria que Bill Viola usa já este meio há muitos e muitos anos, séculos. Gosto das imagens a nú, rudes, sem grandes artifícios técnicos aparentes. Gosto do humano das imagens. Antes de ver os filmes já as imagens dos stills nos prenderam. Tal como Bruce Nauman (agora com os seus peixes suspensos em Serralves), memorável.










Em baixo, uma entrevista sobre Ocean without a Shore.


Ocean Without a Shore is about the presence of the dead in our lives. The three stone altars in the church of San Gallo become portals for the passage of the dead to and from our world. Presented as a series of encounters at the intersection between life and death, the video sequence documents a succession of individuals slowly approaching out of darkness and moving into the light. Each person must then break through an invisible threshold of water and light in order to pass into the physical world. Once incarnate however, all beings realise that their presence is finite and so they must eventually turn away from material existence to return from where they came. The cycle repeats without end.
Bill Viola
25 May 2007
Text © Bill Viola 2007
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