Paradise Now (Vol3)
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11.7.24 – 28.11.24
A site-specific video installation by Ran Slavin
Paradise Now was created as a site-specific installation for the Glass-blowing Hall at the Eretz Israel Museum (MUZA). The work consists of three synchronized projections, fog, and immersive sound in a darkened environment. It is part of Slavin’s ongoing series of varying-length works under the same title, combining digital landscapes, 3D animation, text, AI processing, sound, and still imagery.
For Slavin, Paradise Now represents “a spiritual ritual, a state of suspension and presence within an amorphous, constantly transforming environment. The medium itself becomes the message — a fusion of blur, technology, artificial and timeless landscapes, science fiction, eroticism, and mysticism.”
The work unfolds at the intersection between the spiritual and the artificial, echoing possibilities of techno-spiritual transformation, even if only temporary.
On one screen, concrete and amorphous images evoke both ancient and futuristic East-Asian landscape drawings, derived from coffee-stain scans that Slavin fed into an AI engine to generate visual data sequences. On another, a holographic phantom figure moves meditatively — a digital nomad or shaman, an age- and genderless avatar visiting worlds that melt into each other.
This entity, named NoveryOne — a fusion of No one and Everyone — conducts an abstract, red-tinged ritual within the physical-digital-mental realm of Paradise Now. Slavin invites viewers to reconsider the classical theme of figure and landscape from a renewed perspective, exploring the interplay between the spiritual and the virtual, and between artificial nature and human presence.
. Watch documentation Shown at the exhibition “Beyond” in a defunct flour mill in south Tel Aviv.
