Installations
1999-2000
Precarious Bodies
David Driskell Thesis Excellence Award, 2000
Master of Fine Arts Thesis exhibition, 2000
University of Maryland Art Gallery, Maryland, USA
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Precarious Bodies project: sound installation, video installation
The sound installation was integrated by wood/clay and aluminum/bronze objects that contained sound. Sound was digitally created, it was the mixture of the sound of my voice with the translated sound from drawings or from pictures of the interior of the metal objects.
The video installation put together a scroll drawing and a video wall projection. The video showed me writing in the scroll, emphasizing the analogy between the objects and the human beings.
Precarious Bodies referred to my response when I tried to intuit the mystery of death, through the question I recited: “What are we?” The answer had shifted from a notion of the body's existence as ephemeral and fragile, to the idea of the heavy body, a restraining place for the soul, but also the instrument through which it manifests itself. In short, bodies, whether heavy or fragile, were asking, pleading, giving thanks. —
Precarious Bodies, sound
