SOLAR RING

of LACMANOVIC Valentina

NETHERLANDS, 2015, 00:12:35

Production : LACMANOVIC Valentina
Genre : Video art
Keyword : action, Performance

Summary :

SOLAR RING triptych is the second video artwork of Valentina Lacmanović in which the artist films herself and develops the use of camera as an extension of the moving body through repetitive spiralling movement and trance-like states. It permits to the spectator to enter into the privileged, intimate space of the performer and experience the piece from an unusual perspective.

It is a meditative but demanding and almost disturbing artwork. It calls for “letting go” of mental questioning and invites to abandon. (It can be displayed as three-channel installation or as a linear single-channel projection)


CHAPTER I
Golden cage with open door (obsession with confusion)
The incessant movement of the mind and its chaotic thoughts create a golden cage from which escape is possible, the door is always open but the addiction to the golden light of toxic habits is stronger than the will for change.

CHAPTER II
Solar spiral (transformation)
In order to leave the obsessive mind, a tool is necessary. Repetition of a spiraling and whirling motion are the key, the way out.

CHAPTER III
Voda light (katharmon. myein.)
"Voda" means "water" in Croatian. Once out of the mental cage, the elements are different, and represent the change. Water evokes the initiation, purification (katharmon) and ritualization. "Myein" in ancient Greek means 'to close' referring to the lips or the eyes - evoking the secret status surrounding the rites. Later, “myein” has come to stand for the inexplicable.

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