Pharos Mirror
Trondheim April 2016
Film Installation
50×50 cm
3 min Loop.
16mm/ HD / projection onto photographic print
Pharos Mirror is a film installation I created in response to Skansen area in Trondheim in April 2016, Norway. The work was part of a group exhibition hosted by Punktet and curated by Jeremy Welsh and David Breida.
The work was located under the bridge inside of the grey house together with a work-based installation by Johana Edgren. This was placed on the window that overlooks Skansen Lighthouse built in 1916, the hundredth anniversary of its construction. I used different visual techniques such as analogue photography mixed with 16mm and digital film, a still photo as a screen to project onto, then project onto it the same image recorded in digital and analogue. I played with the optic nerve and perception of depth, creating a 3d volume image which presents an unidentified body at the lighthouse, playing with a mirror and the sun to bring the light out of itself. The techniques used evoke narratives of time and history, those overlapping the quality of the medium. The optic nerve is forced to bring layers of images all together to be able to recognize them. I aimed to create a piece that activate the walk into the lighthouse. The Mirror performance shows early old mirror technologies used for lighthouse communication to guide those who are navigating through the vast ocean, a place where darkness takes over.