Silent Conversations
Antas Axel
Silent Conversations is an investigation of communication through a purely visual language. The installation consists of a video projection onto a large screen. The projection appears as a misty window with anonymous people standing in the background. Each person draws a mark or a sign on the screen. The nature of the marks is naive – basic imagery which reveals our common thoughts and desires.
Production Year
2001
Duration
00:03:12
Tyyppi
Asiasana
abstraction, communication, conversation, drawing (artistic creation), installations (works of art), meanings (semantics), media art, performance (art forms), projection, silence, video art, video installations
Original Title
Silent Conversations
Finnish Title
Silent Conversations
English Title
Silent Conversations
Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
No
Aspect Ratio
4:3
Sound
No
Cast
Axel Antas (Author), Axel Antas (Director)
Press Photos
Axel Antas is a multi-disciplinary artist from Finland who lives and works in London. He graduated from Goldsmiths College, University of London in 2000. In his works, Antas uses a combination of photography, site-specific installation, drawing and film, and he explores the awkwardness and disharmony of man’s failure to connect with his surroundings. Antas is best known for his use of man-made clouds – the attempt to momentarily mimic nature in the photographic series Interventions (2005-06).