#moving image installation

[lbamber]

[thalassagraasch]

Comète, 2010                       

 3.7 x 4.9 m video projection, father's video monitor, b&w/sound, looped

Installation dimensions variable  

This piece, from my thesis series, centers around my great-grandmother's recorded account (in french) of having seen Haley's comet as a little girl, which plays in the gallery space. NASA and other found footage are projected onto a wall. On the floor, my father's video monitor scrolls through various subtle translations of her text, it's cord coiling into a plug on the floor.

[thalassagraasch]

Obscura, 2010

Acrylic, 1986 home video tape, wall with shelf

Installation dimensions variable

The central work of my thesis exhibition, this piece alters during display.  Laying bare the simple mechanism of a camera obscura, this painted (chartreuse) home video--recorded by my father during my first year of life--sit on an exposed shelf and slowly melts under bright lights.  This process is amplified by the five-foot long projected image (by virtue of the mechanism, flipped) of the VHS tape. Over the course of a few weeks, the distortion of this personal artifact is slowly witnessed and amplified in the curtained viewing room.

These exhibition views show the object, the installation of the camera obscura room, the projected image.