Luna

Eden Ofrat / Luna

Opening: 08/03/2007   Closing: 13/04/2007

Luna, Installation View, Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, 2007
Luna, Installation View, Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, 2007
Luna, Installation View, Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, 2007

The space is dark; 8 big barrels are standing on the floor. Each barrel is filled with water reflecting a full moon on its surface.

 

A video projection is screened on the ceiling which shows a spider web and a girl climbing it, trying to reach the moon in its middle. Reaching the moon, the girl disappears in it; at the same time the moons inside the barrels turn into eyes with sick-looking pupils.

 

The eye in the barrels blinks and slowly disappears until the water becomes black and empty. Then, big, black she-spider crawls out of the moon screened on the ceiling, and prowls around the web until everything becomes black.

 

 

The girl climbs to Luna; she climbs to the moon-eye. Whose eye? It might be her own eye or one of the eight eyes of the carnivorous she-spider, the tarantula. It might be the artist’s climb to herself, a destructive self-reflection or a self approval in denying oneself? She climbs the spider web as the mythological Arachne, the skilled weaving woman whom Athene turned into a spider. In a moment she will make it, in a moment she will see, in a moment her eye will close and with it the eight eyes of the spider, the one to offer a sacrifice and the victim.