On the occasion of the Approximation Festival, we are proudly premiering Keta Gavasheli’s two-channel video work Untitled, commissioned by IMAI and developed in dialogue with the sound intervention Alchemists of Sound in Düsseldorf’s Hofgarten.
The video installation engages with the resonances and vibrations that Antonia Alessia Virginia Beeskow and Lilli Lake teased from Henry Moore’s bronze Two-Piece Reclining Figure: Points. Gavasheli’s camera lingers on the sculpture’s surface. A circular magnifying lens brings its details close while simultaneously reflecting its surroundings as light bends and folds across the forms. In the dark of night, shadows and artificial lights further unsettle the sculpture’s contours. The light scatters across its surfaces as the lens filters and fractures both light and sight. Circling motions of the camera echo the optical device itself, rendering vision fragile and unstable, hovering at the threshold of perception, projection, and memory.
Untitled can be experienced throughout the duration of the Approximation Festival in the foyer of FFT.
