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- The image of a bed contains deeper psychological references, simultaneously recalling birth, sex, sleep and dreaming, illness and death. The heart is an image of the rhythm of life - the human pulse, clock, and generator of the life force.
- Inspired by the life and poems of San Juan de la Cruz, a 16th century Spanish poet and mystic, the video installation presents a monastic room, with recordings of whispered St. John's poems, and focuses on spiritual search and issues of faith.
- Continuously running video installation: in a small alcove, a wood column extends from the floor and ceiling, with a gap in the center formed by two exposed video monitors facing each other two inches apart, mounted to upper and lower columns respectively, a black-and-white video image on each monitor. The upper monitor shows a close-up image of an old woman on the verge of death, and the lower monitor shows a close-up image of a new baby only days old. The images are silent. Since the surface of each monitor screen is glass, a reflected image of the screen opposite to it can be seen through the surface of each image, as life and death reflect and contain each other.
- The sculptural video installation consists of nine scrims suspended parallel to one another. Projectors at either end of the row of scrims show images of a man and a woman walking towards each other, crossing in the center and moving apart.
- Nineteen people of varying age, race and sex gather in tight physical proximity, as a compact human mob, when without warning a gushing onslaught of water from both sides of the screen knocks them into one another and down to the ground.
- "Four Hands" - a black-and-white video polyptych on four LCD panels - concentrates on actions made by four pair of disembodied hands reminiscent of Indian 'mudras', the symbolic gestures of Buddhist and Hindu religious iconography.
- Artist Bill Viola juxtaposes personal pictures of his mother's death with images of his own son's birth to explore foundational and potent themes of beginnings and endings, the cycle of life and the movement of generations.
- Seven channels of color High-Definition video on seven 65-inch plasma displays mounted vertically show seven submerged fully clothed people of different ages, genders and ethnicities floating beneath the surface of a river or lake.
- The "Crossroads" project (in the Transit Lounge, Doha International Airport, Qatar) creates an intersection between two streams of human existence: the living reality of travelers encountering the work laterally as they walk along its length, with virtual figures pulsating in the heat of the desert, emerging from mirages and advancing toward the travelers. As they approach, each figure crosses a threshold from mirage to clarity as it moves toward the viewer, making visible their humanity and individuality, from young to old, from all cultures and races, with the endless dunes of the desert in the distance.
- Moving through its five parts, the work describes a cycle of birth through to death, depicting both an eternal, universal Mary, and an earthly Mary representing human life on Earth.
- Experimental video work by artist Bill Viola first shown at the FIAC in Paris, the premier marketplace for contemporary art, in collaboration with the Kukje Gallery in Seoul, and presented alongside The Encounter (2012).
- "Transfiguration" shows apparitions slowly emerging from complete darkness and moving towards the viewer. The bodies move from obscurity to clarity - from death to life - and back again.
- Two women are seen sitting on either side of a marble cistern in a courtyard, as they wait patiently in silence, only occasionally acknowledging each other's presence, when suddenly a young man's head appears, and then his body rises up.
- A stone building, newly restored, stands in the clear light of the autumnal equinox. People move along the street immersed in the flow of day-to-day events. Small incidents play out, affecting individual lives. Families are leaving their homes, people on the street are carrying personal possessions, and all actions become colored by an increasing tension in the community. Moments of compassion and kindness circulate within a mounting concern for individual survival. A final moment of panic ensues on the street as individuals rush to save themselves. The last ones, in denial of the inevitable, have waited too long in the security of their own homes. Now they must run for their lives as the deluge strikes with full force at the heart of their private world.
- Inspired by "The Visitation" of Mannerist painter Pontormo (1494-1557), Viola revives the painting of the period, giving it life stretching in a time that seems, paradoxically, also suspended (45 seconds extended to 10 min. in slow motion).
- In two LCD panels, displayed like leaves of a book, the video artist depicts the weeping of a man and a woman. The title obvious reference is "Mater Dolorosa", the medieval theme and iconography type of "Virgin of Sorrow".
- Five men, in a composition that recalls a Renaissance painting, are instructed by American video artist Bill Viola to "show pressure, tension, and stress in a general arc of emotion as it enters, manifests, and leaves the body."
- This work represents the inevitable separation of father and son as they take separate paths in their life's journey. Two men arrive in the desert under a turbulent sky. They appear at the far extremes of the frame and walk toward us on a trajectory that takes them closer to each other, until they are walking side by side. Eventually they cross paths and begin to separate. The gap between them widens until they leave the outer edges of the frame.
- Envisions an epic quest for transcendence and self-knowledge: Bill Viola describes this work as a "personal investigation of the inner states and connections to animal consciousness we all carry within."
- Presents Bill Viola's four most acclaimed works, structured around a solitary movement, moment or phenomenon through which he explores the nature of video, the categories of perception, the cognitive and spiritual inner life of the witness.
- "Red Tape", featuring five short videos by American video art pioneer Bill Viola, is the artist's first of several collections of short pieces that function thematically as larger "meta-works."
- Video installation covering the progression of Bill Viola's work over the last forty years, beginning with significant works from his early days such as The Reflecting Pool (1979), to more recent creations such as Martyrs (Earth, Air, Fire, Water) (2014).
- Part of the Transfiguration series by video artist Bill Viola, this short video work depicts two women experiencing a spiritual conversion as they choose to pass through a threshold of water and briefly enter an illuminated realm.
- Part of the Transfiguration series by American video artist Bill Viola, this short video work depicts a spiritual metamorphosis as two women choose to pass through a threshold of water and briefly enter an illuminated realm.