turbulence, 2024
Video installation
Fluorescent bulbs, tesla coils
In the video work "Balloons" we see an abandoned agricultural site where 42 white helium balloons are installed, tied to the ground with wires and held down with concrete weights. We hear a woman singing "The Show Must Go On". The woman's voice produces a chain of unexpected events: sensitive microphones translate her song into frequencies resembling a swarm of desert locusts. The sounds accumulate to a whispering symphony, that via a surprising encrypted technological array, based on words and syllables, generates a detonation action that releases the field of balloons into the air. The ignition that sets the balloons free also torches and explodes them, and the resulting explosions become part of the symphony of sounds. In the gallery space, simultaneous video views of the unfolding sequence of events are displayed, so that the mechanisms of photography and editing disclose the mysterious apparatus subsisting between field and sky. Alongside the video work is a mobile-like sculptural installation of fluorescent lighting tubes, light and lightning.
Similar to the field of balloons, the fluorescent tubes are ignited by electric currents bursting from a Tesla battery, like lightning in the sky. The currents produce sound frequencies similar to locust chirping, a live accompaniment to the symphony playing in the video.
