Tuesday, September 27, 2005

An Act of Faith (about Bill Viola's text "Statements").

The mind of the viewer is where art work come to finalize, since it is a reflexive, abstract and unlimited number of ideas, wich are not allowed to be completed, unless the perception, and most important, information a viewer can achieve.
The idea about watching a video, and being able to see one frame at a time, can be transfer to the space in its whole dimention. This is, an object, can only be appreciate or seen by a viewer by only one of its side, then the viewer must take some steps to embrace another face.
A viewer it’s only able to construct the totality of an object, wich does not exist in any other place but inside his mind. So, the perception of an object (whatever its size is) is really an “experience” in wich we are able to smell, hear, touch and even taste the object in order to comprehend its nature.
This is what I call an act of faith.
Standing in front of a grave, a big mass of stone basically. Big shaped stone, grey and cold, doesn’t mean anything on itself. It is then when the viewer, among its own perception, mixture of senses that can’t be put away from information, gives this grave a sense, trough the act of faith. Believeing on this shape, binging life to deathness.
Standing in front of a piece of art, necessarily, takes ourselves to the biggest act of plundering.

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