OMG
2008 | solo exhibition: installation | video projection, wooden structure, painting, lights, video monitor
The Installation OMG spreads over 3 spaces and comprises 3 individual works:
OMG, OMG (Lost at Sea) and OMG (Lost in Space). All three deal with the notion of make-belief. Make belief as both an artistic and survival, existential device.
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The central piece OMG (Lost at Sea) was built for the exhibition space. Based on the space’s architectonic structure, “Lost At Sea” is a scaled-up wood cut layers-theatre (an illusionistic device, popular in the 18th century). When stepping in, the spectator finds themselves inside the belly of a giant fish, looking towards the stormy horizon (based on Giorgione’s The Tempest) through the fish’s mouth. Between the two threats - the approaching storm and the whale - a video projection is embedded in the painted wood cuts and background: a patch of calm water where Effi & Amir are constantly rowing a canoe. As they are rowing in opposite directions, they constantly circle, staying at one place.
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In a second space, Lost in Space is installed. It is a dark room that it lighted up every 7 seconds by a flash of strong light. the short flash charges a wall piece made of star stickers, which makes them visible for 3-4 seconds in the darkened room. The same flash of light is visible outside the darken room through holes creating the letters OMG.
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The space with and without the light flash
in the passage space between the two rooms, where the drilled OMG letters are visible, the third piece - OMG is displayed. It is a 7 seconds animation loop based on a detail from Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam from the Sistine Chapel. In this video, a human hand we a bandaged finger approaches God’s stretched hand. When the fingers touches the light in the Lost in Space room flashes.
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