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Details
- Date
- 2000
- Media category
- Time-based art
- Materials used
- digital tape (betacam) shown as single channel digital video projection, black and white, silent, silk cloth screen
- Edition
- 1/5
- Dimensions
- duration: 00:30:00 min continuous; aspect ratio: 3:2; projected image: 61.0 x 76.2 cm
- Signature & date
Signed l.l. certificate of authenticity, blue fibre-tipped pen "Bill Viola". Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of the John Kaldor Family Collection 2011. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 254.2011.a-b
- Copyright
- © Bill Viola
- Artist information
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Bill Viola
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About
Performer: John Malpede
‘Memoria’ is a precursor to Viola’s later works, including his series 'The passions'. Shot on a low-grade surveillance camera, an image of a man’s face showing a range of emotional states is projected onto silk cloth, recalling the Veil of Veronica or Shroud of Turin. The image is so degraded, however, that it sometimes breaks up, dissolving the face into the snow of recorded noise. Like his 2006 work ‘Bodies of light’, the figure seems to be on the verge of becoming or disintegrating, like a signal from another place.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Journey to now: John Kaldor art projects and collection, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 18 Apr 2003–06 Jul 2003
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Bibliography
Referenced in 6 publications
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Alison Ferris (Curator), The Disembodied Spirit, 2003.
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Adam Free, Journey to now: John Kaldor art projects and collection, Adelaide, 2003, 61.
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Kira Perov, Bill Viola: visioni interiori, 2008.
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Michael Rush, Video art, 2003.
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Wayne Tunnicliffe (Editor), John Kaldor family collection: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2011, 257, 259 (illus.).
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John Walsh, Bill Viola: The Passions, 2003, 96-97 (illus.), 269.
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