Twin Peaks

Twin Peaks, 2017. Arthur Fouray. Single-channel video with sound · 1 min 43 sec.

A white disc turns against a blue field, and a small green point interrupts it, inside a frame that never moves.

The blue is my wall painting #000fff (Veriscope), painted in chroma-key blue, the colour a studio replaces with another picture; here I filmed it and left it in place. The green point is ç (aaafff (B.A.A.)), a leather-and-screw object of 1 × 1 × 1 cm. The turning disc is Portmanteau Rotary Plate, as my portfolio Arthur Fouray 2015–2017 names it. Inside the video the painting and the objects change scale: the wall becomes a field of colour, the small object a point, the rotary plate a moving disc.

I set the video to Richard Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30 – Prelude, written in 1896 after Friedrich Nietzsche’s book; since Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), its opening carries the film with it.

Sources: Arthur Fouray, Catalogue, 2017; Arthur Fouray 2015–2017, p. 7.

Further reading: Richard Strauss — orchestral works.

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