For this work a single sunset was recorded off the southern tip of Mumbai from the site of a crematorium. The speed of the footage was then manipulated for 8 of the television sets. The sun enters the screen at the same time for all TVs and submerges into the ocean and fades to black at the same time, but in between there is synchronized dancing of the sun. The TV screens being old tube television sets are all color-shifted, so the sunset looks different on each screen. When it fades to black, the black is also not pure, and is color-shifted. There are 20 minutes of sunset and 20 minutes of black in the loop. The single TV alone shows the last light on the clouds, sped up and lurching in the edit. The photograph pictures a still photograph from the sunset video being burnt in the artist’s hands.
EXHIBITION HISTORY
Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas, 2016 Bakalar & Paine Gallery, Boston, MA, 2015 Sorocaba Triennale, Brazil, 2014-2015 Project 88, Mumbai, 2014 Wanås Konst, Sweden, 2012 Carl Berg Projects, Los Angeles, 2010
