Jayce Salloum
Everything and nothing and other works from the ongoing project 'Untitled', 1988 - 2005
Video installation
The artist about his work
Untitled is a video installation extending and building relationships, constructing an environment where spheres of histories are situated in a web of connectivity It is a sculptural space that presents the effect of walking into a videotape itself, a stillness, a silence of moving images juxtaposed, flowing and colliding, waves of scan lines, an active meditativeness picturing the interstitial. Listening, headphones close off exterior sound, linking to the audio feed, the voice speaking from the image before you. It fixes the space and frames it, the act of witnessing becomes confessional, a direct feed that demands its own time. Each part is projected onto its own image area or emanating from a monitor. It is an atmosphere of visual collusion, collaboration, contextualisation, critical interference, and mutual existence The illuminations play off each other, creating an imagistic and aural experience of the physical/visceral and the underlying subjectivities experienced through the body, as crisis, nation, and metaphor, or in transition and shift, and in the recounting or enunciatory nature of the interstitial site.
© Jayce Salloum. From a text published in the catalogue of Sharjah Biennial 7, 2005.
© Photos: Haupt & Binder, Universes in Universe
3ª parte del foto tour por la Bienal de Sharjah 7, 6 abril - 6 junio 2005. Presidente & Directora: Hoor Al Qasimi. Curador: Jack Persekian; Co-curadores: Ken Lum y Tirdad Zolghadr. 70 participantes.