Open Cave is a video installation showing a slow moving sky.
The viewer plays a crucial role as the piece changes while they are moving through the space. Positioned in front of it, they can observe a clear image of the sky, clouds and birds passing by. As they start to move around the space, the sky becomes decomposed and fragmented, lost through the different layers of the scaffolding, emphasising the disconnection between us and the landscape.
In Open Cave the reclaimed scaffolding netting was used for a third time and therefore saved again from obsolescence. It had been used in the construction site and after that for the site-specific installations, Synthetic Waters.
With a title inspired by Plato’s Myth of the Cavern, this piece reflects our displacement within the environment living in concrete cities. The viewer is encouraged to take some time to look at what is always there, the sky.
OPEN CAVE.
Video-installation projection.
Video, scaffolding netting, bamboo sticks.
170 x 210 x 260 cm
Open Cave, Art Academy Graduation Show (exhibition view), 2020, Former Newington Library, London.
Open Cave, Art Academy Graduation Show (detail image), 2020, Former Newington Library, London.
Open Cave, Art Academy Graduation Show (detail image), 2020, Former Newington Library, London.