BREAth

A stunning amalgam of spiralling water, video loops and pulsating soundscapes, Breath takes us back to basics: heartbeat and the need to breathe. Caroline Locke’s latest installation harnesses the circulatory force of water and the sound vibrations of the human heart to immerse the viewer in the experience of natural polarities, expansion and contraction, stability and instability, order and chaos. Breathing is our most basic experience of polarity and Locke’s installation takes us into a realm of intimate subjectivity, in which the physical task of providing oxygen for the heart, is externalised as noise and chaotic sensation. The physical events of the body necessary to keep us alive are transformed into demonic experience of inner time


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