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Video artist Bill Viola opened a show at Blain Southern. The exhibition called Frustrated Actions and Futile Gestures has three parts. The works are powerful and are related to death, futility and a certain despair and loneliness.
Dreamers depict portraits of people seeming to sleep underwater, while there is in the background a music sound. The peace and calm on their faces makes it more difficult to see where the sleep ends and death begins, therefore creating a tension.
In Angel at the Door a man hears a knocking at the door. The viewer’s curiosity grows as he reaches for the door. Amazement – there is nobody. The action repeats, and at the end there is a mirror reflecting the man himself.
The third part, Mirage, has four videos that were filmed in an area called El Mirage and where some distant forms are coming towards the camera, and from distorted and strange shapes they become more and more visible.
Bill Viola: Inner Passage on Nowness.com