Pixel Perfect Guided Visualization (2021)
Audio-visual installation (13:00 minutes) offering the visualization of an image, one pixel at a time. Turned into a moving image and projected into a square-shaped wall, the image becomes simultaneously hyper-visible and avisual – not perceptible to the human eye. A voice-over meditates on whether an image that never emerges in its entirety might enable “to see” more. In doing so, the voice-over moves the focus towards the images that are carried and produced in one's imagination, while drawing a parallel between image production and desire production.
The installation was adapted into a booth format for a group exhibition planned for February 2021 in Neverneverland, Amsterdam. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, the exhibition was cancelled. For more documentation on the installation, get in touch at kivasakona@gmail.com
A Ladybug on Your Hand (2022)
A bossa nova song playing in the background, the sound of air shaken by a fan. Every now and then, the flipping of a magazine page, water poured in a paper cup, a candy being unwrapped. A Ladybug on Your Hand recalls a waiting room, but it is not your usual waiting room. Rather, it is a liminal space where the audience is invited to take a break from the abundance of stimuli of everyday life and tune in to their interior.
The TV monitor and magazines displayed in the room point to a living archive of mental images that one could not possibly encounter in media, but may manifest in social and material reality. These images are connected to the realm of the sensible as much as they are to the creative potential of imagination.
Exhibited at Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam, as part of the group exhibition Foraging for [...], 2022.
For more documentation on the installation, get in touch at kivasakona@gmail.com
Killing Dead Time (loop in progress)
Three-channel video installation (looping video) exploring the potential of the loading time or “dead time” – the time when the internet connection is momentarily interrupted – as a mode of subverting the logic of productivity underlying everyday cinematic experiences that take place online. The three screens, each one embodying a consciousness, are put in conversation with one another. Adopting a critical and humorous approach, questions concerning the entanglement of time, presence, desire, pleasure, leisure, productivity and visuality come to surface.
For more documentation on the installation, get in touch at kivasakona@gmail.com
The Light (work in progress)
In this audio-visual installation a person narrates the moment of her own death. When she sees the famous bright white light at the end, she soon understands something: the light is actually formed by the images of her entire lifetime. With this premise, The Light explores how subjectivity is produced in and through images. In doing so, it also addresses the cultural and temporal aspects of the images that flow in the imagination. In the present-day hyper-visual world, are there any images that remain invisible or unseen? To what extent do we share our mental images with the other?
All rights reserved © Kiva Sakona
Pixel Perfect Guided Visualization (2021)
Audio-visual installation (13:00 minutes) offering the visualization of an image, one pixel at a time. Turned into a moving image and projected into a square-shaped wall, the image becomes simultaneously hyper-visible and avisual – not perceptible to the human eye. A voice-over meditates on whether an image that never emerges in its entirety might enable “to see” more. In doing so, the voice-over moves the focus towards the images that are carried and produced in one's imagination, while drawing a parallel between image production and desire production.
The installation was adapted into a booth format for a group exhibition planned for February 2021 in Neverneverland, Amsterdam. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, the exhibition was cancelled. For more documentation on the installation, get in touch at kivasakona@gmail.com
A Ladybug on
Your Hand (2022)
A bossa nova song playing in the background, the sound of air shaken by a fan. Every now and then, the flipping of a magazine page, water poured in a paper cup, a candy being unwrapped. A Ladybug on Your Hand recalls a waiting room, but it is not your usual waiting room. Rather, it is a liminal space where the audience is invited to take a break from the abundance of stimuli of everyday life and tune in to their interior.
The TV monitor and magazines displayed in the room point to a living archive of mental images that one could not possibly encounter in media, but may manifest in social and material reality. These images are connected to the realm of the sensible as much as they are to the creative potential of imagination.
Exhibited at Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam, as part of the group exhibition Foraging for [...], 2022.
For more documentation on the installation, get in touch at kivasakona@gmail.com
Killing Dead Time (2022)
Three-channel video installation (looping video) exploring the potential of the loading time or “dead time” – the time when the internet connection is momentarily interrupted – as a mode of subverting the logic of productivity underlying everyday cinematic experiences that take place online. The three screens, each one embodying a consciousness, are put in conversation with one another. Adopting a critical and humorous approach, questions concerning the entanglement of time, presence, desire, pleasure, leisure, productivity and visuality come to surface.
For more documentation on the installation, get in touch at kivasakona@gmail.com
The Light (work in progress)
In this audio-visual installation a person narrates the moment of her own death. When she sees the famous bright white light at the end, she soon understands something: the light is actually formed by the images of her entire lifetime. With this premise, The Light explores how subjectivity is produced in and through images. In doing so, it also addresses the cultural and temporal aspects of the images that flow in the imagination. In the present-day hyper-visual world, are there any images that remain invisible or unseen? To what extent do we share our mental images with the other?
All rights reserved © Kiva Sakona