Galerie Nathalie Obadia is pleased to announce the exhibition of Peter Sarkisian, an American artist born in 1965 in Glendale, California and currently living in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
The Musée Picasso in Antibes devoted a major solo exhibition to him in 2000. The Strand installation features isolated bodies falling through a three-meter transparent column. The "appearance/passage" of each character is associated with the sound of a voice whose flow is precipitated by the falling bodies. These voices speak of experiences lived by all and are expressed at the beginning, slowly, with clarity, before fading away as the bodies move away.
The viewer has only a very brief contact with the images, and because the voices telling these stories are only audible for a short time, these images seem fleeting, as are the past moments they recall. It is these same moments of experience that ultimately shape our perception of the world. In addition, the viewer has a parallel experience, both visual and auditory.
Strand is his third "projection-multiple" installation. It follows other installations such as "Dusted" (1998), "Hover" (1999) and "Hands of a Similar Man" (1999).
Regularly exhibiting in the United States and Europe, Peter Sarkisian's work is currently on view at the UCLA Hammer Museum in Los Angeles in the exhibition Making Time: Considering Time as a Material in Contempory Film and Video Art, curated by Amy Cappellazzo.
A solo exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston will be organized in 2002.