Exhibition
Born Today Dead Today
1 Nov 2020 – 22 Nov 2020
Regular hours
- Monday
- Closed
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Timezone: Europe/London
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- Language: English
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A presentation of two interconnected works by London based artist Ariel Helyes, BORN TODAY DEAD TODAY brings together a video and a digital sculpture to explore ideas of powerlessness and death, as seen in the context of branded design, esoteric psychology or finance.
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A presentation of two works by London based artist Ariel Helyes opens on 1st November, as part of Arebyte’s program dedicated to artist videos, multimedia experiences and curatorial interventions.
BORN TODAY DEAD TODAY brings together a video and a digital sculpture to explore ideas of powerlessness and death, as seen in the context of branded design, esoteric psychology or finance.
In the mute video piece The Healing (2020), appropriated and reversed CGI disaster movie footage gives way to the possibility of recovery for the world. The sense of scale conveyed by the production heavy originals enables a global sense of healing, an undoing of the damage done e-v-e-r-y-w-h-e-r-e, through a simple act of reversal.
The anti-gravitational visuality of the debris and concrete slabs in the video returns in the second work titled Evaporating car (2020). As the car keeps losing its materiality, dissipating, while simultaneously trying to cling to it, the work imitates the quick cycles of rebirth and obsolescence in design – but also the hopeful possibility of its negation: the breaking of the circuit and the realisation of real death.
