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.

Walking the Line

Projection, 10:34"

2012

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