LOWER EDGE UPPER EDGE

My material is what is commonly called by the word video. But video nowadays is more associated with cinema, with narrative. And what I do is light and rhythm in space. The mythological beginning of the world. A world before man. Without stories.

I have minimized the light to a strip that moves on a black background and called it LINEMENT: a word composed word from English line + element. With LINEMENT, I divide architectural space into heaven and earth, creating landscapes inside buildings.

Landscapes interest me as a representation of the edge of the earth, and the edge of the earth as a theme of the transcendental and the unknown. I love being in such landscapes and my works are inspired by them.

This exhibition is named after two video installations made specifically for this exhibition space: LOWER EDGE and UPPER EDGE.

The LOWER EDGE is the boundary between the sea and the land, marked by lines in constant motion. It is assembled along the main ten-meter wall with twelve monitors turned sequentially in relation to each other, showing the constantly changing movement of a white line that appears and disappears on a black background.

The UPPER EDGE – a line that fluctuates but does not disappear – is the horizon. It is stretched diagonally across the second room, angled towards the main hall, and is made up of nine monitors raised at eye level, showing a nine-channel synchronized video with a white fluctuating band.

These two lines of multiple monitors are contrasted by the video KINBURN RUN, presented on a single monitor. The monitor shows a figure running along the shore, positioned so that the lines from the monitors on the left and right form a continuation of the landscape in the video.

The landscape in the video is the virtual Kinburn Spit, where my personal art museum is located. The museum exists in the form of a computer game called KINBURN.