Paradise Now (Vol3)
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11.7.24 – 28.11.24
PARADISE NOW (Vol3) is a site-specific video and sound installation that represents an ambient subjective ritual in a perplexing intangible realm. Cynically termed “Paradise Now” as a portamento of ‘Apocalypse Now’, it also sets in motion a wish within its title. Setup with two different screening medias, a holographic LED display and a round back screen that projects fluid landscapes in constant morph and volatility reminiscing ancient ink etchings caught in unexpected changes. Slavin bases these images on scans of coffee stains picked off his espresso machine, after they formed random landscape patterns on the bottom of coffee cups, and rendered them with AI technology to produce sequences of motion data. The front projection depicts a small flickering real-life draped human figure, reminiscent of a holographic shaman found both in Jewish and Christian iconographies as well as in Sci-Fi epics such as Star Wars, its name is NoveryOne, a compound of no one and everyone, an avatar of the artist in a space of meta-time exploring an intersection of human and spiritual in a supernatural virtual space. Watch documentation Shown at the exhibition “Beyond” in a defunct flour mill in south Tel Aviv.
