A Shipwreck
Sara Pathirane
A Shipwreck is an installation that consists of a video projection which reflects from the screen onto a transparent surface on the floor, and a live performance by the artist. The installation may also be presented as a projection without the performance. The work investigates what happens to an image when it is shipwrecked into an unfamiliar place, into a new image outside of its origins, where it does not belong. It deals with the presence of the image that exist in between three places, creating a fracture in time and prologing its own existence towards eternity.
Production Year
2013
Type
Tags
deserts,
duration,
environmental issues,
installations (works of art),
media art,
performance (art forms),
pictures,
video art
Original Title
Eräs haaksirikko
Finnish Title
Eräs haaksirikko
English Title
A Shipwreck
Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
No
Sound
Yes
Cast
Sara Pathirane (Author), Henrik Amberla (Cinematographer), Sara Pathirane (Director), Henrik Amberla (Editor), Sara Pathirane (Script), Kuvataideakatemia (Funder)
Press Photos
Sara Pathirane
Born: 1985
Sara Pathirane’s work deals with the tradition of landscape painting and the problematics of taking a picture. As shooting locations for her videos she uses nature areas known from movies and paintings, shifting between the everyday and the fiction. She works with video, painting and live-installations. Pathirane lives and works in Helsinki. She has studied in the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts and Accademia Albertina in Torino. Her works have been shown for example at Taiga-Space, Saint-Petersburg (2016), Colombo Art Biennale (2016) and Kiasma (2010, 2013).
13 works