Nativity
Showing of the
fabulous “Nativity” at the National Gallery, Martha Fiennes's film which was
featured in the video for the recent exhibition about architecture in
Renaissance paintings.
I could have
watched this for hours. The background, architecture, figures and sound all
self-generate themselves continuously so the film has no set length and no
specific narrative. However your head starts to make up narratives. I found
these were often set by the music and in my case at one point the sky went
dark, the architecture changed and “Silent Night” played and I found it so
moving, and yet it wasn’t meant.
The work had the
same effect on my as Anthony Gormley’s “Field” works which have hundreds of
small figures in a defined space. I
found both works hard to walk away from because of the strong sense them build
up that the work will still exist when you are not there and you feel a bit
like you are deserting it!
I want to see
more using this SLOimage technology it was really beautiful.
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