Shoufay Derz

RADII HEART
A series of both Still Photographs and Video (193 minutes, 2-channel, silent). The video toured nationally as part of the Blake Prize for Religious Art Touring exhibition 2002, and was exhibited again in 2004 at Sherman galleries, Sydney.

The installation is two video screens, each 193 minutes in duration. Each screen displays a circle of 360 candles. In Radii Heart (inside out) a candle is lit every 30 seconds, beginning from the center and spiraling toward the periphery until all 360 have been lit. In Radii heart (outside in) candles are lit, starting from the outside perimeter, then inwards towards the centre. The entire process takes 193 minutes. The lights flicker and some die off over the period of three hours, creating an impermanent and evolving quality of light.

The photographs ( 80 x 80 cm, photographs face mounted acrylic) were first featured in the exhibition One of at Sherman galleries 2003. An image is published in the Sherman galleries publication TWENTY:SHERMAN GALLERIES 1986 - 2006.

You can view this work in the forthcoming touring exhibition: Light Sensitive, works for from the Verghis collection. This exhibition was first shown at Bathurst Regional gallery featured works from prominent contempoary artists whose use of light is intergral to their work. Curated by Richard Perram.

Examples from the Photographic series shown here:

Radii Heart 340/360
80 x 80 cm
Lamda print, face mounted on acrylic
ed 5, 2004

Radii Heart 357/360
80 x 80 cm
Lamda print, face mounted on acrylic
ed 5, 2004

Radii Heart 344/360
80 x 80 cm
Lamda print, face mounted on acrylic
edition of 5, 2004

Radii Heart 360/360
80 x 80 cm
Lamda print, face mounted on acrylic
edition of 1, 2004

The following images are Still frames from the accompanying video.

ON LINKING BACK

Installation shot: dreamboat

Installation shot: Linking back
Asia-Australia Arts centre,2004

Linking Back
150 x 53 cm (x 3)
Lamda print, face mounted on acrylic
2003 Blake Prize for Religious Art Award

Curtain
62 x 100 cm

LOVE CAPSULE/TERMINIAL LOVES

Installation view
2-channel digital video, love capsule, colour, 44 minute loop
Love capsule: Terminal Loves prompts a sceptical and questioning dialogue concerning the language of love. The work invites the viewer to enter the intimate boat / capsule to be confronted with a two channel audiovisual loop of strangers looking at them while repeating the words "I-love-you".