Diana Spiridou (Greece) An artist’s statement
“At first sight,
the works look like conventional paintings but they actually are short videos (5 minutes) changing slowly and gradually. The motion is almost imperceptible so it is necessary for somebody to stand in front of the works in order to notice it. These works have no start and end. Their actual starting point is the function of human sight.
“The
video
is constantly vibrating, giving the sense of a moving canvas. They are videos but they neither require nor they demand from the audience a full time watch just because they have no start and end. They are not paintings, but they give to the audience the opportunity to see them as static pictures due to their slow motion.
“The material
is not only the video, with the meaning of the moving picture but this slight almost imperceptible motion as well. It's of special interest the kind of picture that arises or will arise from this motion. The final work is closely related to this motion, it takes its form from it, it depends on it.
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