Paradise Now (Vol3)
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11.7.24 – 28.11.24
Shown at the exhibition “Beyond” in a defunct flour mill in south Tel Aviv.
is a site-specific video and sound installation that can be transported and adapted to other spaces. With its strong and vibrant blue colors and ambient soundtrack it represents a ritual in a perplexing intangible realm, between expressions of science fiction in popular culture and ancient theological narratives, it provides an intermediation of ethereal and virtual states.
Cynically termed “Paradise Now” as a portamento of ‘Apocalypse Now’, it also sets in motion a wish within its title. After all ,what we crave for mostly is a paradise on earth. Setup with two different screening medias, a holographic LED display and an oval back screen that projects landscapes in fluidity and constant morph representing volatility and far from recognizable ancient ink etchings caught in fast changes. Slavin bases these images on scans of coffee stains picked off his espresso machine, after this formed random landscape patterns (referring also to symbolic coffee reading of the future etc) later rendered by AI software to produce sequences of fantasy motion data. The front projection depicts a small and draped human figure, flickering reminiscent of a holographic shaman found both in Jewish and Christian iconographies, its name is NoveryOne (Novery1), a compound of no one and everyone, it is an avatar of the artist in a space of meta-time exploring an intersection of post human and spiritual additive perplexing the supernatural. Watch documentation
