I couldn’t stop watching. A simple video presented at The annual Los Angeles Art Show 2025. It’s a sensuous moving image of a woman slipping vertically through narrow passages of what appears to be metallic parentheses in a swimming pool. It’s totally disorienting because she appears to be sliding around and pushing off for quite some time underwater.
But she’s not. Once you get your bearings, the viewer realizes that the camera shot the swimmer from the top — so she’s not bobbing up and down, but rather playfully gliding back and forth — normally— across the top of the pool. Once you see it, there’s no doubt. It’s just art that makes you WORK FOR for the answer. That happens to be my favorite thing — and I’ve always believed the most successful art does just that. (Really, what’s the thrill about a piece that simply sets the table for you?) There is so much more to a piece that challenges the brain, and lifts our spirits in the process.
Video artist: Marck. /. Video installation: “Gegenstrom” (Gold) / LCD a screen LED light / media player / Licht Feld Gallery
