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
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).