martin bonadeo | exhibitions

This site specific installation starts in a little room where a back light with a shelf holds four closed glass jars half filled with Pacific Ocean's water. Each jar has a 35 mm. slide picture of a different moment of a sunrise at Buenos Aires's Plate river. The water acts as a magnifying lens. All the four horizons make a continuous line producing an illusion of many suns over the same river.

The installation's main space is a rectangular room, with a compass over a pedestal in the middle. One of the walls is a glass that faces a rectangular water fountain. There is a PC connected to an LCD projector generating an image sequence that represents a sunrise/sunset. The sun's speed, its movement (sunrise or sunset) and the image's color vary randomly. The base pictures of this photographic animation are sunsets in Santa Monica Beach, California, USA. The projector is hidden inside the ceiling and it is pointing towards the water fountain's back wall in a way that the horizon line matches the division between the water and the wall. The fountain's water is moved artificially, breaking the wall's image reflection and producing fuzzy light lines all over the room.
The compass has a little bulb that lights it and it is moved by four electromagnets that make it spin constantly.

The room is scented and has two speakers that reproduce a soundtrack composed by many samples recorded from Buenos Aires river, Los Angeles ocean and some artist's corporal sounds.

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