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Elisa Sighicelli

The River Suite

September 12–October 7, 2006
Britannia Street, London

Elisa Sighicelli: The River Suite Installation view

Elisa Sighicelli: The River Suite

Installation view

Elisa Sighicelli: The River Suite Installation view

Elisa Sighicelli: The River Suite

Installation view

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Gagosian Gallery is pleased to present The River Suite, the second solo show of Elisa Sighicelli in London.

The River Suite is an installation consisting of eight individual video works. Focusing on the representation of a river at night, Sighicelli continues her exploration of light and darkness, space and time.

In the video projections of the left and right banks of the river, the camera travels in one long shot along the river bank at night; from the darkness very few lights emerge to reveal buildings and fleeting glimpses of life, which immediately disappear into blackness again. Our voyeuristic instinct is frustrated by the continuous changes of the image in space.

In the other five video works, the camera is fixed on a single detail of the river bank, a red building in the distance, a blue house, or a mysterious warehouse. Like moving photographs, these fixed images evolve in time, each passage is revealed by the shifting reflection of light in the water. The stillness and silence of these videos creates a feeling of expectation about what may happen but the suspense is trapped in a continuous loop.

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