My blood is boiling; my body becomes submerged in moving landscapes. More than an eye massage, Eyeball Massage, the exhibition of works by the Swiss artist, Pipilotti Rist, at the Hayward Gallery, beholds the idea of collective movement by means of a thoughtful combination: walls created by insubstantial cloth; space full with luminescente visual installations and soundscapes. Looking at these constant flux of light streams in any different away produces a sensation of visual vertigo! If Lobe Of The Lung (2009), a 15’ 36’’ audio-video installation overlapping nature and civilisation projected we have to lie down for, in Administrating Eternity (2011), an audio-video installation, made especially for the Wayward Gallery, Rist takes the idea of comfort into another level: people meet, interact and watch videos together – «as we relax, images flit over and through a labyrinth of floating screens and across our own bodies»: a three-dimensional play where we, suddenly, find ourselves drifting along in the middle of a flock of sheep’s or lost in unexpected ways in microcosms and macrocosms. It was a ball where floating screens and objects blended in cultural provocations and social deviances.
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