a body

2011

Site-specific video installation with vellum and a single channel projection

The video for the installation was recorded with a waterproof video camera used in the shower the way a bar of soap is used on the body. In this, the cleansing has been enacted, by the camera. The proximity of the camera to the body, to the skin renders the body to be a negative space due to the lack of light entering the camera’s lens. The final video is projected vertically onto a piece of vellum that has been hung at a slight angle from the beam or ceiling of the center of the space. The sides of the video “spill over” from the sides of the vellum onto the wall thus building new architectural environment with the negative body-space articulated by the light of the looped 22 minute video projection.

The installation inverts the presence of bodies in architectural space as inactive paradigm and enables a tangible entity be constructed out of the concept of the body as a negative space articulating the new, body-active architectural terrain: the one that structures space and the one encompassing the viewer thus involving the viewer in the negative space-body dialogue.