Gate

PICTURES

WORK DATA

Category:
ARTWORK
Type:
installation art / interactive art / video art
Keywords:
closed-circuit / interactive / single-channel / special effects / video installation
Creation Date:
1991
Description:
Odd it the word: gate. It is a short word, informal, insignificantly neutral and definite... It is always pompous and important in architecture and mythology. It is the ultimate arrival, the gate of "Heaven". It is the last point of linearity. There are different gates as well, proportioned according to the transit traffic of our era: They are prominent, promising and alluring. These are the real entrances, because you can only exit somewhere else: under the "exit" (or sometimes "emergency exit") signs of department store forced routes, the pre-designed and boastfully polished tourist labyrinths. And that is a gate which indicates through passage at certain borderlines. It is the only place between two worlds which allows penetration — the place of exposure, the plane from which both sides appear undecided and the same: but different. (E.K.P.)

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Original Title (Hungarian):
Kapu
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