Ever been in love with someone without meeting them?
an actor or actress, through the silver screen?
how about falling in love with a person without seeing them?
perhaps a friend of a friend, through stories told with bright eyes?
for me, last week, it was fiona tan. a dutch artist. her work in the Dutch pavillion in the 2009 venezia bienalle, called Disorient, was powerful in many ways:
- presentation
- images, their composition, granularity and tone
- atmosphere and interaction created with the crowd
- format of videolets, video segments of 2 minutes or less, connected in an interesting way, telling a touching, provoking story
- how we think of ourselves, how we interpret others
she has quickly become one of my favored artists.
for more on her works and biography, looks at:
and a review of her exhibition at the new museum in NYC
and if you have never enjoyed video art before, here is some of the work i talked about from venezia
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