Breach
- Art Installation
- May 2021
- Agency: 500X Gallery
- Artist | Projection Artist|
Director of Photography
Breach was a collaboration with Anam E. Emmar created a video and projection piece that expressed a woman reaching through a waterfall. As though she wished to push between worlds. A plaster hand (Anam E's molded hand) is pressed through the transparent material to present that hand going through the waterfall. This is an expression of wishing to reach back into the world before the pandemic.
Also a visual metaphor of Emmar's vision experiences in childhood. He would sometimes feel a strange spell and dizziness, followed by seeing a vision of a young woman that would tell him he lived in the wrong world and that she wanted to pull him to the right place. Then his feet felt like they were sinking into the floor, and a massive headache would progress. He hasn't felt this experience since teenage years.
1. The Film
Concept
Emmar shot the woman in the image with model Bryar Bennett. She wore a Christmas dress with sequins to give it some extra sparkle. She was shot on an anamorphic lens with the camera on its side. The waterfall was created with Christmas lights punched through cardboard, and using slit scan effects to stretch the lights. The screen material was a covid shield plastic on a frame. A short throw projector under a 65 inch television (displaying Bryar), projected the waterfall.
Anam presented pieces that were connected with the people that lived in the location of the 500X Gallery. Their ancestors were some of the first residents in Dallas that had come from Mexico. Another breach across worlds. There was a tape recorder with music that could be listened to.