The Wet
(Single channel video, 4' 56'')
Statement
The [artistic] modality through which The Wet is formed, benefits from the postulation that every concept is a multiplicity – in the sense that it is a totality of its components – and that “all concepts are connected to a problem without which they have no meaning.”
Intervening into the customary interplays and connections between the visible and the sayable, The Wet examines the possibilities for “conceptualizing” a problem (set). It attempts to attain such a task by constructing visual and pensive situations founded on disturbing the autonomy of both image and language.
The historical conjunction of language and image in the cinematic or commercial forms renders the viewer conceiving of a natural/semantic connection between language and image, signification and visibility, on the screen and posits the former is to confer meaning upon the latter. By way of usurpation of the information value of images (stadium), and displacement of the signifying power of language, The Wet creates an assemblage in which the relationships between text and image surpass the bounds of representations and significations. In generating these conjunctions and disjunctions ––that is, to create semantic expectations for the viewer and to simultaneously abolish them –– The Wet seeks to aesthetically help construct a concept, one, whose concomitant “problem” resides in "the elsewhere" of the screen’s temporality.
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