Lydia Venieri "Tomorrow ~ Phosphor Stars in White Nights"
Venetia Kapernekas Gallery
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Venetia Kapernekas Gallery presents Tomorrow, a new project by Lydia Venieri. For this work, the artist projects a four-minute video and a series of four photographs: archival inkjet on satin.
Tomorrow is a video featuring deers staring at an exploding sky while singing an altruistic and nostalgic song of friendship called Tomorrow. The deers are chosen for their symbolic representation of suburban innocence and sacredness like the soul of a burnt forest. In the background, the night sky is lit up not by fire works, but by a deadly rain of phosphor bombs illegally dropped on the Gaza and Iraqi population.
While the deers sing Tomorrow, Lydia Venieri adds a track of a young Israeli soldier’s voice. Although the soldier is defending his country in war, his conscience forces him to denounce the use of phosphor bombs, exemplifying the artist’s search for the embodiment of global human conscience.
The series Phosphor Stars in White Nights is derived from the video Tomorrow,where Venieri uses the allegory of the images of the deers with their wide open eyes, beating hearts and standing ears to continue her exploration of fear as transmitted and disseminated through the information apparatus of the media. In background, Gaza appears as if from a scene of One Thousand and One Nights. In war’s nefarious festivity, Venieri plays again with juxtapositions: drawing her audience in with the dolls’ extreme innocence, then without mercy, taking them down the wrong path of the fairy tale where the dream becomes a nightmare.
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Schedule
from December 16, 2009 to February 06, 2010
Opening Reception on 2009-12-16 from 17:00 to 20:00