Exhibitions
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The Talisman installation is a silent, two-channel video installation with six small LCD monitors on legs, cables, broken glass, charms, and feathers, together in a glass case. It is a kind of a terrarium of electronic familiars; a nest of curious, electronic birds - small creatures in a chaos of hearts, cables, and glass. Talisman is a "love spell" for a broken heart.
Fragments of charms, spells, and mementos appear around tiny
video hearts: a silent, ceaseless incantation of the metaphors
of love. The spirit-video compulsively runs through distorted
icons of "love", heart always "center screen".
Individual frames flash like memories. These hearts - hearts
of stone, burning hearts, wooden hearts, "mutated"
hearts, hearts that are only words - are punctuated throughout
the video by medical images of the body's real heart - breathing,
pumping, catching in its rhythm. This video uses the hardness,
the rationality of electronic technology and its processes -
the antithesis of emotion - as the language with which to express
emotion. The second video channel intercuts real, digital, and
digitally processed smashing glass hearts with the EPI scans
of the real heart - a continuous onslaught. Both video loops
use medical images of the physical inner-body as a psychic window
inward to the soul; a modern vocabulary for poetry, magic...
spells.
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