Waterfall: Installation by Shuli Sade

August 7 - November 8, 2009

In Waterfall, time is metaphorically arrested in space. Reality and dream are in the hands of the viewer, who selects the order of time by facing in one direction or the other. Mixes of sounds are layered to create an ambiance of uncontrolled time—time here is “out of our hands.”

The installation features 15 individual video pieces in lengths of three minutes to eight minutes grouped by color: Sepia, Green, and Blue. Throughout her work, Sadé uses a unique color scheme to suggest linear time: sepia for past, green for present, and blue for future. Sadé’s work illuminates thoughts about time in space by flipping the horizontally flowing river to vertical to suggest a waterfall, creating a new, nongravitating timeline.

Shot from the windows of moving trains during different seasons in 2008–09, the videos are excerpts from a series of videos recording the total duration of train rides between York City and Brattleboro, including towns along the
Hudson River.

Waterfall is part of the Great River Arts Institute’s H2O: Film on Water project. H2O celebrates and reaffirms our relationship to the natural world as seen through the eyes of almost one hundred video artists. With water as the show’s focus, each work prompts viewers to reexamine our relationship to this elemental, life-sustaining force. The project is on display at multiple venues along the Connecticut River Valley and its watershed.

Shuli Sadé is represented by Cynthia Reeves Gallery in New York City and Spheris Gallery in Hanover, New Hampshire.

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Location:
Mary Sommer Room

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