Monday, November 16, 2009

Sonja Nilsson

Last week I saw this piece by Sonja Nilsson in the group show, JIGSAWMENTALLAMA at David Cunningham Projects , and it blew my mind.
If you are in San Francisco GO SEE IT!

the show is up until 12/19/09
1928 Folsom st.
thursday - saturday
noon - 6


Here is a description of the installation (in a different show) from on the artist's website:
In the exhibition Rotes Haus there was a hole smashed into the wall. If you were about to put your head into the hole, you would see a copy from the room from the scene in "The Silence of the Lambs" built in a dollhouse size. In the space between the walls in the middle of the dollhouse room there was a video sequence of me where I danced as the serial killer Buffalo Bill is doing in the scene. The way, in which it was built, the room and the video sequence looked completely three-dimensional. After about a half-minute, you became heavily blinded by a flash. Afterwards you had a still picture of me on your retina that stayed with you in about 10 minutes. The picture didn’t go away even when you closed your eyes.

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