Out of Time: A Contemporary View, now at the MoMA, features a piece by veteran new media artist Bill Viola titled Stations(1994). The video installation comprises five video projections, each displaying a nude figure suspended in water, accompanied by a lulling soundtrack of underwater gurgles. Floating head-down, the figures slowly drift in and out of the image frames. Polished slabs of granite placed at the foot of each screen provide reflections of the figures which, seem to be swimming in pools of black liquid. Stations is a powerful meditation on the cycles of life, death and rebirth.

1 Comments:
Griffin,
Saw this MoMA Bill Viola installation too. Good descriptiong.
Cynthia
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