"They are blind, they only see images _ Están ciegos solo ven imágenes" _ Mahmud Shabistari Persia S.XIV.

The Passing




Bill Viola. 1991. United States of America. 54’

Considered to be one of Viola’s most important and accessible works, The Passing was made as a personal response to the spiritual extremes of birth and death in the family and speaks eloquently to human experience at its most profound. Black-and-white nocturnal imagery and underwater scenes depict a twilight world hovering on the borders of human perception and consciousness.

"I would say that time is the fundamental basis, the basic material of my work .(...) I will have succeeded if a person leaves with an image, a thought, a discovery, a feeling that I can use in your life, even though he can not remember my name. Things have fallen far behind in the contemporary art world. These are the essential things about art, and the criticism and analytic practices that dominate our lives as art professionals are secondary functions.

"Yo diría que el tiempo es la base fundamental, el material básico de mi trabajo.(...) Habré tenido éxito si una persona se marcha con una imagen, un pensamiento, un descubrimiento, un sentimiento que pueda utilizar en su vida, incluso aunque no pueda recordar mi nombre. Las cosas se han atrasado mucho en el mundo del arte contemporáneo. Estas son las cosas esenciales sobre el arte, y las prácticas analíticas críticas que dominan nuestras vidas como profesionales del arte son funciones secundarias".