Video: Performances by Miwa Matrieka: between reality and illusion
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
American works Miwa Matreki (Miwa Matreyek) blur the boundaries between real and unreal. Using an innovative combination of animation, projection and his own body, the author creates amazing and meditative works that I would like to call nothing less than a visual miracle.
All the author needs to present is a projector, a screen, and her own body. At the moment when Miwa Matreek goes behind the screen, her shadow becomes an integral part of the projected animation: the girl curls up to become a small island in the middle of the ocean, carefully walks through the sleeping city, her hands perform some magical manipulations with the streams of light … According to the author, she is interested in watching how animation, when connected to the body and space, changes and acquires more material properties, while the body, on the contrary, begins to seem like something more unreal and fantastic.
The genre in which Miwa Matreek works is rather difficult to define. On the one hand, her performance can be viewed as a cinematic action taking place on the screen. On the other hand, what the viewer sees in the audience is the result of a combination of multi-layered animation and a moving human body, which means that this is more than just a film. “It easily combines genres that should exist separately from each other - animation, performance, sculpture and music - and creates bizarre and amazing works,” one of the online publications described the work of Miwa Matreek.
Miwa Matreek lives and works in Los Angeles. She graduated from the California Institute of the Arts, where she studied experimental animation. The author is also one of the founders of Cloud Eye Control, a media group dedicated to creating theatrical performances using animated projections.
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