PEEL, 2009

Peel is a multi-channel audio-visual installation, it presents a visual echo of the present instance: it takes an unexamined moment and gives it life. The transitional motion of going to the fridge to get an ingredient is stretched into the echo of an unforgettable instant, and what emerges is an examination of the subtlety and hidden beauty of that moment. The mass repetition of small videos magnifies subtle nuances while blurring the whole ensemble into a mass of activity. For instance, the elementariness of simple gestures of a seemingly mundane daily activity (such as those of stirring, or putting hair behind the ear) get morphed into a complex choreography when multiplied. The effect of this process is mirrored in the dense and rich textured sound that emerges from the layering of the audio from the individual videos.

Exhibitions & Screening:

2011
Taste 2011, Root Division Gallery, San Francisco

2010
Art Killed The Video Star@Riff Raff, Grosenberg, Tel-Aviv, Isreal
VideoZone @MUV music and digital arts festival, Florence, Italy

2009
13th International Video Festival VIDEOMEDEJA,
Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia.
Espacio Enter: art tech media, Canary Island, Spain
Not Still Art Festival, Micro Museum, Brooklyn, New York,
Celeste Prize Finalists Exhibition at the Alte AEG Fabrik, Berlin, Germany
Without Borders Festival: Conjunction, Lord Hall Gallery,
University of Maine, Orono.
MFA Show, Sullivan Galleries, SAIC, Chicago

The work was announced as the winner of Art vs Design organized by http://www.artistswanted.org/ at the New Museum.

PEEL  voted as the winner of Celeste Prize’09 http://celesteprize.com/artwork/ido:27351/

Watch full video here http://vimeo.com/5293796

4 Responses to “PEEL, 2009”

  1. The Celeste Prize says:
    July 10, 2009 at 11:30 am

    [...] a media artist. She recently won the Art vs. Design contest, organized by Artists Wanted. Her work PEEL, which was the winning entry, is also a contestant for the Celeste Prize. From their website: An [...]

  2. PEEL @ MUV music and digital arts festival, Florence (Italy), June 3rd 2010 | Surabhi Saraf says:
    May 14, 2010 at 6:08 pm

    [...] PEEL will be shown at  Videozone as a part of MUV music and digital arts festival along with 13 other selected videos from the Celeste Prize Network. [...]

  3. How I made “Fold” | Surabhi Saraf says:
    September 24, 2010 at 12:29 pm

    [...] idea for Fold came from this one moment in Peel where the video changes from yellow to pink, I wanted to take that moment and expand it. Folding [...]

  4. Class 5 (Mark’s Section): Living sculpture, drawing, video critique « tuesdaycoreclass says:
    October 6, 2011 at 1:48 pm

    [...] Surabhi Suraf [...]