Video: Surreal molten mirrors in the Mizukagami installation
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The symbol of the "constancy of memory" is the flowing down, seemingly "melted" clock. The surrealist Salvador Dali created this unique image, anticipating, to a certain extent, the desire of artists in the future to conquer the nature of things, to force them to take forms and states that are unusual for them. An example of such a discrepancy is installation "Water Mirror" (Mizukagami)created by Japanese designers Rikako Nagashima and Hideto Hyoudou.
Molten mirrors actually made of acrylic, although they really resemble puddles of water. In the middle of a small room you can see a table, on the sides of which there are mirrored streaks, there are the same liquid mirrors on the walls, reminiscent of randomly placed vertical blots.
Objects "reflected" in mirrors, text printed on the walls - all this enhances the visual impression. The main goal of artists is to show people how subjective their view of the world is, how what they see can differ from what really exists.
Once in this black-and-white room, the audience was surprised to find that the "unreadable" text on the walls became quite understandable when they were "read" by them in one of the mirrors. The trick is simple: the lines were drawn on the walls from right to left, and the mirror served as a "translator", placing the letters in their places. The text is, of course, deeply symbolic: “As long as water exists, it reflects our world as it is. Beautiful or terrible, chaotic or neat, light or dark, bringing all these facets together."
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