Walking the Line
Created by: Gabriel Klasmer and Shira Klasmer
Year: 2012
Length: 10:34 played in loop
Sound Composition by: Tom Tlalim
Editor: Haim Litani
Format: Wall to wall projection
After a great success with project 'ProlongGone', father and daughter duo created 'Walking the Line', an installation for the gallery setting. 'Painting' as material, 'photography' as light, Gabriel and Shira create sequences of imaginary paintings, frozen photographic images, sweeps of light and form that appear and disappear rhythmically on the screen accompanied by a sound track.
The 'painting' is performed by the artist holding a ‘brush’ made up of a line of LED lights. The act (of painting) is photographed by two still digital cameras creating a single still frame of long exposure, capturing the traces of the action on to the camera's sensor.
When working on these sequences in the darkness of the car park, ‘painting' is transformed to a work of performance. With no physical material engagement and resistance, 'painting' becomes a work of memory and repetition - the reconstruction of a mental imprint, counting steps, rhythmical gestures, movement - a task in the memorisation of the act which was never seen.
Shira and Gabriel have collaborated with sound artists Tom Tlalim to create the intricate soundtrack. Based on stretched sounds, repetition and rhythmical beats references the act of making the light-painting, and the notion of a machine at work with its repetitive movements.
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