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- 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.
- 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.
- A bound and suspended upside down man is subjected to a physical onslaught of water.
- 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."
- Seven metal barrels, filled with water, each contain a black-and-white video monitor positioned on the bottom. Each monitor shows a recording of a person's face while asleep, presented with little or no editing.
- 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.
- 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.
- A four-hour plus video production inspired by Richard Wagner's oeuvre "Tristan und Isolde" and projected during the opera premiere in Paris, in partnership with Peter Sellars as artistic collaborator, and conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen.
- 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.
- Part of the collected works Bill Viola: The Passions (2003) which explore extremes of emotion, "Surrender" deals with grief and loss. Two figures break down into uncontrollable tears, lowering their heads until their faces touch the water and distort.
- On one panel, a man is seen upside down on a black background, floating serenely in free fall in extreme slow motion, while the accompanying second panel presents an inverted image of a clothed man who is floating underwater in a dark pool.
- 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.
- 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.
- Comprises five video projections, each displaying a nude figure suspended in water, accompanied by a lulling soundtrack of underwater gurgles and murmurs. Floating heads-down, the figures drift slowly out of the image frames.
- With a title referring to Japanese folklore, wherein things done on the first day of a new year are significant, the film - an ardent dream entirely shot in Japan - stands as a spiritual allegory equating light and dark with life and death.
- On the left screen, a young woman is in the process of giving birth, while on the right video we see an old woman in the process of dying. In the central video, a fully-clothed man is slowly moving underwater like between birth and death.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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.
- Violent streams of water make two lovers disappear into oblivion but, very slowly and inexorably, they're coming back despite the strength of the water falling on them.
- Two naked, life-sized figures, each around 70 years old, track torches across their aging epidermises as if rooting out the pattern of their pasts. The skin itself becomes a metaphor for lived experience and the prospect of its termination.
- Presents a psychic landscape or "inscape" in which the viewer experiences the workings of the human mind, in particular, the process of remembrance.
- This haunting installment contains a solitary wood chair with headphones attached, facing a television monitor. A man (the artist himself), looking visibly fatigued, appears on the screen, sitting in his own chair. Here, the artist compels viewers into an intimate relationship: they sit at eye level with him, listening to the sound of his breathing through the headphones.
- This work consists of four looped video works (Hall of Whispers, Interval, The Veiling, The Greeting) and one sound installation (Presence) which cannot be seen separately, but constitute a whole intertwined in the building's architecture.
- A man emerges from the forest and stands before a pool of water. He leaps up and time suddenly stops. All movement and change in the otherwise still scene is limited to the reflections and undulations on the surface of the pond. Time becomes extended and punctuated by a series of events seen only as reflections in the water. The work describes the emergence of the individual into the natural world, a baptism into a world of virtual images and indirect perceptions.
- 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).
- American video artist Bill Viola describes this short video work as "an expression of the feminine principle, a work in three parts relating to a personal concept of woman and mother."
- Presents three distinct bodies of works by American video artist Bill Viola: the Frustrated Actions series (2013), the Mirage series (2012) and the Water Portraits series (2013).
- The video installation's alternation between slow and fast-moving images, as well as soft and loud sounds, represents faltering thought processes. A murmuring voice illustrates the installation's effect on the viewer's mind.
- Seating in an armchair against a stark background, the artist stares at the camera, his silence punctuated by screams. The camera pulls back to show he's at the end of a long hallway, and rapidly zooms again into the inside of his mouth .
- The final video in the five-part digital-image cycle project "Going Forth By Day" (2002), "First Light" shows rescue workers who are resting for the day beside a pond as a ghostly figure ascends from the water.
- Video art work that evokes images of dreams or a dream state, made for the 30-minute TV/video show "Dreamworks", and broadcast as part of "Frames of Reference".
- The fourth video in the five-part digital-image cycle project "Going Forth By Day" (2002), "The Voyage" features an elderly man who is dying, surrounded by his family, as a boat below filled with his possessions awaits him.
- Offering a series of encounters at the intersection between life and death, the work documents a succession of people slowly emerging out of darkness and moving into the light, where Viola's figures are like those of a modern day Orpheus.
- In a body of water through which a light ray penetrates, gradually becoming ever more intense, Isolde's body draped in shining clothes raises from the depths, with the ray of light's movement lifting it high until total darkness.
- A 45-second video clip, which shows two actors in extreme states of anguish, is played in extremely slow motion on two 42" plasma screens, resulting in a looped 15-minute video work of silent screams and total despair.
- From February 24 to June 25, 2023, Palazzo Reale in Milan is showing a major exhibition dedicated to the artist who since the 1970s has been considered an undisputed video art's master: Bill Viola. It offers 15 of his masterpieces on view.
- Coming toward the camera through a water wall, a young man seems to live a powerful experience. "Transfiguration is a word that means transformation, a change in form. In ancient Greek, the word was metamorphosis," as explains the artist.
- A color video triptych shown on three LCD flat panels, "Anima" (for "Soul" in Latin) depicts three people who have been directed to express a series of emotions in a specific order - joy, sorrow, anger, and fear.
- A video homage to Spanish romantic painter and printmaker Francisco Goya's etching "The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters" (1799), showing flashes of a man's nightmares projected in a mixed-media environment.
- A group of nine people (three women and six men) are seen standing close together as they undergo a wave of intense emotion that threatens to overwhelm them. Color video on LCD flat panel mounted on wall.
- Part of a body of works by American video artist Bill Viola, the Water Portraits series (2013), the video portrays a woman completely submerged beneath the water, still, eyes closed, moved only by the gentle rippling of the current.
- Drawing on Renaissance iconography and painting, and emulating an altar triptych, this large-screen video installation consists of three simultaneous projections which symbolically present earthly life, the Last Judgement and the hell, offering a contemporary allegory of existence.
- Five Angels for the Millennium comprises five videos projected at a large scale directly onto the walls of a dark gallery space. Each one features a clothed male figure rising out of and plunging into a pool of water at irregular intervals.
- One day video/sound installation featuring live black and white camera mixed with previously recorded action performed in the same place, with a large metal pot of boiling eucalyptus leaves.
- "Hall of Whispers" is a video/sound installation in which one sees, on two sides of a dark space, projections of the pallid faces of ten people who have been gagged.
- A man sinks down rapidly into the watery depths, but his inevitable and extended ascension's entire sequence, which was only a few seconds in real time, is slowed down into 10 minutes of extreme duration, as if he is reaching Heaven.