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"Reflections"
(Installation/Performance)
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22.12.94 >>9.2.95
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Orna Millo is standing on a black
ladder; Zakir Hussein's music is playing in the background. She bends over
a pile of salt lying in a perspex frame, and uses the salt to draw. Everything
is transparent, her hand's motion can be seen from below. The perspex frame
hangs between the ceiling and the floor, its height adjustment precisely
to the dimensions of the artist on the ladder to enable her to draw with
the salt. The body's symmetry serves the symmetrical movement and drawing.
The movement takes place from the inside out or from the outside in, with
the central axis being perceived as the center of gravity, the point of
equilibrium.
The choice of salt is first and foremost intuitive; later it takes on several
other meanings: The white color of the salt, the noble material, "serves
the pictorial contrast between black and white".
Blueprints, too, are exhibited at the Office - paintings that were created
using a system utilizing the qualities of light. By its nature the work
is drawing-like and swift, allowing for a rapid turnover of thought, and
therefore it preserves somewhat the characteristics of performance art.
"For me, blueprints are a kind of documentation".
Orna Millo has developed a new technique to project the salt works on offset
plates, which are printed in a limited series. This printing technique could,
perhaps, be given a new name: "Orna-graph".