A M A Z Ô N I A (Projecting on Black) by Solange Fabião
Presented as part of Light, Seeking Light at Western Bridge, Seattle
October 2 - December 20, 2008
Seattle, October 3 - A M A Z Ô N I A (Projecting on Black ) , a HD video installation by New York artist Solange Fabião is now on view at Seattle's Western Bridge.
The series consists of 14 HD videos that were shot in the Amazon region during the dry and wet seasons of 2006 and 2007. The single-direction videos present unedited the dramatic changes that occur during sunrise and sunset. A M A Z Ô N I A serves as a living landscape that creates an immersive effect upon the viewer, there is no sound beyond the ambient polyphony of the rainforest and no silence. By projecting on a black-painted surface, Fabião unites the medium of painting via its physical presence to that of video and, in doing so, reveals a new kind of depth to the projected image while also exploring the extremes of darkness and light.
According to David A. Ross, Director of the Albion Gallery in New York, "In her simple and elegant video landscapes, Fabião expresses her experience of these spaces in their most quotidian yet most profound transitional states -- dawn and dusk. To the work's credit, the notion of real time is communicated as profoundly as the sense of the river's physical beauty."
A M A Z Ô N I A (Projecting on Black) presents three videos, totaling 2 hours and 56 minutes in length, selected from a 14-part series. The series was the inspiration for Light, Seeking Light , an exhibition of four installation artists on view at Western Bridge in Seattle from October 2 through December 20. Western Bridge is a nonprofit space dedicated to contemporary art, and founded by Seattle collectors Bill and Ruth True. The True Collection contains works in video, photography, and other media by an international roster of mid-career and emerging artists. For more information please visit www.westernbridge.org
About Solange Fabião
Solange Fabião was born in Rio de Janeiro where she studied architecture and received her BFA in set design. She worked as set designer for the Brazilian Network Rede Globo and designed sets for theater in Rio de Janeiro and in Berlin. Fabião studied digital media and art history at the HDK and Freie Universität Berlin arriving in Berlin seven month before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. In 1994 Fabião left Berlin to New York.
Fabião is primarily known for her global art series TRANSITIO, a public art project presented in Beirut in 2004, New York in 2005 (as part of the September 11th Fund) and in Miami in 2006. In 1997 Fabião presented the internet project Cyberclone 2000 at the 47 th Venice Biennale. Fabião has as well received numerous accolades for her architectural projects, including most recently the architecture competition for the Cité du Surf et de L'Océan in Biarritz, France.
For more information on Solange Fabião please visit http://artdvision.com/