FOLD, 2010

Excerpts from video installation @ Root Division Gallery, San Francisco

*Headphones recommended

Fold is the second video in the series Video Choreographies. It is single channel audio visual installation composed of a gird of 96 small videos. Fold creates a multifaceted view of a single day’s solitary act of folding laundry; the mass repetition of small videos magnifies subtle nuances while blurring the whole ensemble into a swarm of activity. The elementariness of simple gestures of a seemingly mundane daily activity (such as those of pulling out a t-shirt from the laundry bag or putting hair behind the ear), gets morphed into a complex choreography when multiplied. Fold is an attempt to create layers of structures and overlaying patterns, patterns that are always evolving.

Screenings & Exhibitions:

2011
Video Installation, Currents 2011, The 2nd Annual Santa Fe International Media Festival, Santa Fe (June 10-19)
No Dialogue, ArtPadSF, San Francisco
Video Installation, The Athens Video Art Festival 2011, Athens, Greece
Competitive Shorts Program, The Disposable Film Festival, San Francisco
Say Something, Gallery E6, San Francisco
Emerging Video Artists, Big Screen Project, New York

2010
Espacio Enter: art tech media, Canary Island, Spain
The International Streaming Festival, The Hague, Netherlands
7th Busan International Video Festival, Space Bandee, Busan, South Korea.
Introductions 2010, Root Division Gallery, San Francisco

4 Responses to “FOLD, 2010”

  1. Fold, by Surabhi Saraf – Dana McClure says:
    December 10, 2010 at 2:39 pm

    [...] Surabhi Saraf’s recent video FOLD premiered at the Root Division Gallery in San Francisco this past September. The piece is a [...]

  2. ひとりビデオウェーブ(FOLD) : monogocoro ものごころ says:
    January 12, 2011 at 3:02 am

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  3. Mission Residents Folds to Make Art – Mission Loc@l : News From San Francisco's Mission District says:
    September 24, 2011 at 9:01 am

    [...] The performances by the Delhi-born artist who now lives in the Mission, lasts approximately 15 minutes, and are  a live realization of her 2010 award winning video choreography project Fold. [...]

  4. Looking into the fold | Sepia Mutiny says:
    January 28, 2012 at 8:26 am

    [...] it while listening to music or watching TV and quickly put it out of sight and out of mind. But FOLD from San Francisco-based new media artist Surabhi Saraf offers an opportunity to ponder the mundane [...]