Video: Apocalyptic light installations by Tsang Kin-Wah
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The Revelation of John the Theologian (Apocalypse) is one of the iconic works of world culture of the last two millennia, which inspired many theologians, writers, artists, musicians and filmmakers to create their works. It also inspired a Chinese artist. Tsang Kin-Wah, which creates seven separate works on the seven seals of the Apocalypse.
We on the site Kulturologia. Ru have repeatedly told you about post-apocalyptic works of different genres. For example, we talked about post-apocalyptic postcards in London, about post-apocalyptic Moscow, about Dismayland - post-apocalyptic Disneyland. Today we will tell you about the apocalyptic art itself. Namely, about art based on the book of John the Evangelist Apocalypse.
One of the authors working on this subject is the Chinese artist Tsang Kin-Wah. Moreover, he works diligently and methodically. The seven light installations that he is going to create in the end are based on the seven seals of the Apocalypse - seven seals, the opening of each of which will entail many disasters, catastrophes and suffering on Earth, and after the discovery of all the power on Earth will pass to Evil.
It is these seven seals that Tsang Kin-Wah plays in a series of his installations. No, he is not at all going to bring closer the moment of opening all these seals with his creativity. On the contrary, he opposes it in every possible way, warns people against it!
Each of these installations by Tsang Kin-Wah is a set of light images projected onto the walls of the room in which it was created. These images include apocalyptic texts taken from Christian, Buddhist, Taoist eschatology, excerpts from metaphysical, existential and political sources. Also in these texts there are excerpts of current news and descriptions of all sorts of sins, meanness, stupidity, manifestations of evil and other unpleasant things.
All these texts and their scraps as light reflections slowly move along the walls, ceiling and floor of the room, intersecting with each other, crawling on top of each other, creating symbiosis among themselves. And some of them are also broadcast in the recording in a voice, in a whisper, which gives all this an even more ominous atmosphere.
The main task of Tsang Kin-Wakha when creating this series of apocalyptic works is to warn people against evil, from temptation, to tell them what these terrible things can entail.
At the moment, Tsang Kin-Wach has finished work on the fifth work, on the fifth seal. The installation "The Fifth Seal" is presented until mid-January 2012 at the Tokyo Mori Art Museum.
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