Video Art Review

When watching a video, one does not ask how it will end or what storytelling connects the represented narrative; rather, it is observed with the intent to be overwhelmed by particular energies and emotions, desiring to fully experience that specific moment. In these cases, the artist pursues research on the meaning of the codified representation of the territory, and beyond that, shows the complex issues underlying it, at times describing the ultimate condition of losing connection with the place, freeing themselves from any link to what is depicted. Their works highlight various conditions that characterize contemporary life, namely the loss of an effective relationship with the surrounding environment. Video art seeks, through its languages, a relationship between vision and words, between the passage of time and the stillness of our unconscious, where a “poetic” revelation and effective mechanisms of surprise remain possible. The linguistic mode functions as both a mental suggestion and a process of images and subjects, revealing or suggesting movement in the escape from reality, where narrative time management is a key element to understanding the distinction between these methodologies, in which the artwork itself has become the site of conflicts between reality and appearance, truth and beauty, where the horizon is sublimated. This vision is represented by the artists: Adriana Omodei, Shay Frisch, Fabrizio Passarella, Antonio Trimani (Italy), Nevet Yitzhak, Ruth Patir (Israel), Gaz Ejupi, Majlinda Kelmendi (Kosovo), Dilek Winchester (Turkey), presenting a complex and universal reality.

Reflections on these videos, and on art in general, and the mechanisms that connect them to the historical, social, or intimate reality in which one lives, are central to these works. Rather than constituting a simple acquisition of reality translated into new formalism and aesthetics, even though increasingly complex and aestheticizing new technologies may suggest otherwise, they reaffirm that art must contain and transmit a subversive charge, a signal of danger, a propulsive and proactive force, as well as a message for navigating the human universe of poetry.