Surveillance




The pit and the pendulum, Installation view from a group show ‘xxx’. Curator: xxx. xxx Gallery, 2010.
The pit and the pendulum (2010)

The pit and the pendulum
two-channels video installation
2010
This exhibition was comprised of two projects.
The first project entitled 'The Pit and the Pendulum' was exhibited in a similar version under the title 'Ana in the Holy Land' ('Mini-Israel', 2006). This piece is built within the depth of a wall, while only two rectangle peepholes connect the events taking place inside the work with the external space of the exhibition venue. The internal space of the work, built as a theatrical place, holds two LCD screens that show the same figure (a woman). One screen depicts the woman pacing back and forth, and the second screen shows the same woman from above, sitting in a cellar or a pit. The woman lights and extinguishes matches. Both characters carry out routine actions, actions that "burn time", but can also quantify or measure it.
The act of lighting the matches echoes Hans Christian Andersen's 'The