On Dec 17th I decided to design a specific work for Gallery14. I went to Golden Sq. and looked at the space thinking of a way to connect the outside environment (space) with the inside space of the gallery. I found Golden Square a fresh break from all the hyperactivity around Soho and Oxford St.
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MEMORY
SLICE
     
This project is very simple yet results are intriguing. In the process, the space of the square is blended with the gallery space through prerecorded digital video being projected on the glass window panes. (It is possible to use real time video of the actual space as well) click to enlarge...  
This project requires a video projector and some 3M adhesive film. I made the sample video on 18th thus it is not the final work, which will be in more detail and layered format with text and other movies. This is a works in progress of London and other UK scenes, in addition to experimental footage. All the footage is edited from DV shot in 2001.
The video is projected from inside of the gallery and result is dynamic windows.....
At one time or another, we've contemplated the realm of visual similarity and mental recollection of them…The perceptive powers defined by seeing and remembering are interconnected. Visual art is design of expression in space and memory is the fibers of time, which also ties the space to our seeing. Space and time are intertwined, and are associated with what eyes and ears collectively perceive. The synchronism in perception of memory and seeing is something that makes an explicit picture. Active correlation naturally happens when one looks, listens, smells, or touches to remember what one sees. As light defines space to which visual matter can function, memory slices defines space in time which visual matter can be formed.
The three window panes are covered with a frosted (semitransparent) self adhesive 3M film.....
                   

click to see the movie...

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Gallery14 proposal 12-01

                          Amir Soltani © 2001