Online
In Online, a single-channel video, abrupt episodes of light lead to a dramatically altered perception of the scene we are witnessing. A mostly darkened frame shows an erratically moving iridescent blue line, accompanied by a persistent rattling sound. For a few short moments light is switched on, revealing the stained gray floor of a room; the dizzying blue line, which brings to mind an electrical discharge, an electroshock weapon or even a digitally-generated image, reveals itself to be a rope or cable; in fact, it is a plastic-coated light-up jumping rope whose rattling movement was produced manually, in the artist's studio.
Alternating between two opposed lighting conditions – utter darkness versus full electrical lighting – the image too shifts between two widely-opposed sets of connotations, going from the violence of a high-voltage electric discharge or the harshness of natural elements to a child’s play in the confines of a closed environment. Recorded live, the rope’s rattling sound likewise participates in the manipulation of our sense perceptions, keeping the viewer on edge and teetering between spectacular outbursts and the matter-of-factness of a recognizable object; between tension and its release.