BlueGasEyes
Artist:
Mirosław Bałka
Technique:
video installation
Measurement:
3 min 37 s; 10 × 127,5 × 170 cm /×2/
Date:
2004
The work shows two rings of flame made by ignited gas rings. The projection is accompanied by the characteristic hissing of the burning gas. The seemingly innocuous image is disturbed by associations with the use to which gas was put in concentration camps. The round shape of the burner can also be seen as reminiscent of the shape of the shower head in the ‘showers’ in which the mass extermination of prisoners took place in the camps.
Funded with subsidies from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage
