“8’19” Exhibition

TOTAH

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TOTAH presents 8’19”, an inaugural moving image exhibition, concurrent with Lauretta Vinciarelli: Light Unveiled, both paying tribute to light, the most ephemeral of media. Uniting abstract, experimental, documentary and narrative - including both 16mm and digital - work, 8’19” examines how light transforms space, perception, and in turn movement, thought and feeling. 8’19” is organized by Laurence Kardish, the former Senior Curator of Film, The Museum of Modern Art, with the assistance of Sarah Lehat, an independent curator.

8’19” includes Margot Benacerraf (Venezuela), Stan Brakhage (USA), Maya Deren (USA), Nathaniel Dorsky (USA), Peter Hutton (USA), Kenji Mizoguchi (Japan), Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (Germany/USA), Andrew Noren (USA), Satyajit Ray (India), Mohammad Rasoulof (Iran) and Bill Viola (USA).

The program takes its name from the eponymous new film work by artist Charles Ross, which TOTAH will premiere. In the 60s and 70s, Ross became fascinated with light, time, and the space of the stars, innovating a host of ambitious earthwork projects with the support of the Dwan Gallery. 8’19” is an abstract video piece, documenting the creation of Ross’ “solar burn” panels, projecting the viewer into the place of light for the “time it takes sunlight to reach the earth”.