Description

Video installation with two projectors and one DVD player. Projection board, 228 x 167 cm (90 x 66.5 inch), (variable), installed with projections on both sides. Video loop 19 seconds (silent). In the darkened room, (size variable), the installation should ideally look like a floating mirror. The video is in black and white, without sound.

A man enters from the right carrying a cockerel, in total synchronisation with his reflection. In the ambiguous space, he pauses, seems to strike a pose as he looks at the viewer. In, what may be seen as, a state of resolution of some sort as he breaks up into little atoms and dissolves. He suddenly reappears as the cockerel struggles and succeeds to escape. The synchronisation with the reflection breaks as the man runs after the cockerel and his reflection slowly follows him. The man returns with the captured cockerel, once again in sync with his reflection and the sisyphean sequence of escape/capture, resolution and the RUPTURED REFLECTION is repeated silently and endlessly on a ‘floating’ mirror.

The work mirrors and maps each desperate nuance of dual desire: One to hold, the other to escape, before regressing into a choreography of beguiling synchronization as the video loops silently and relentlessly repeats the sequence.