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VADIM FISHKIN: Miss Christmas, 2012; Tower, 2012
Installation/projection
Testing the limits of technical feasibility against the facts of science, direct individual experience and imagination, the light/shadow installations present visual paradoxes that subvert a fundamental law of human perception. The moving images created by the shadows detach themselves from the causal relationship between the real object and its shadow image.
In one of the projections the shadow of a palm tree bending in the wind appears to be rising from the paint box on the floor of the exhibition space, creating an absurd illusion, while in another miniature installation the shadow of an eraser, viewed from an imaginary perspective, becomes a monumental tower with a flag on top.
Barnabás Bencsik
VADIM FISHKIN: Sun _Stop, 2003
Computer-controlled video projection
The energy released during nuclear fusion inside the Sun and radiated into outer space is essential for most terrestrial beings and greatly influences the phenomena of life on Earth. Sun_Stop pays tribute to one of the significant figures of Russian cosmism, the scientist and thinker A.L. Chizhevsky, born in 1897, who is known as the founder of heliobiology. He was the first to attempt to prove with his research that biological and social life processes on Earth are related to solar activity.
In Fishkin’s continuous, interconnected videos the Sun occupies approximately the same position in the sky (directly above the horizon, just before it sets). The cameras are located in different points on the Earth, allowing the broadcast to be switched from one place to the next every half hour so that the Sun is ‘always in the same place’.
Barnabás Bencsik