比尔•维奥拉
洗礼
双频录像装置
2005
BILL VIOLA
Ablutions
Color video diptych on plasma displays mounted vertically on wall
2005

关于比尔•维奥拉作品《洗礼》

双视频画面最初同时出现两股平行直落的水流。一女一男的身体躯干同时走进左右两个屏幕背景处的对应位置。两人同时缓缓向前移动到聚光处，并把手窝成杯状接水。水落在手上溅开水花的慢动作画面弥漫着静谧、冥想的视觉情绪，深化了整部影片的感性体验。洗手的镜头持续数分钟后，画面逐渐模糊淡化。维奥拉形容这个作品类似于日本禅宗寺庙里的净化仪式。

About Ablutions by Bill Viola

The diptych opens with two parallel streams of water.  A female torso moves into the background of the left screen while a male torso mirrors her on the right. The figures move slowly to the foreground and into the light, their hands begin to cup together under the water. The slow motion of the water splashing off their hands adds to the visceral sense of the video.  The two figures wash their hands in the water and after several minutes fade out into silhouettes.  Viola has described this work as a kind of purification ceremony akin to those one would experience in a Japanese Zen temple.