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CASCADES  2000

A PROJECTED VIDEO ENVIRONMENT BY STEINA
Cascades was conceived in close collaboration with Sissu Palsdottir, who is responsible for the arrangement of the projection space. Cascades premiered in a 1999 exhibition titled Millennium Architecture in Gerdarsafn, Iceland.
“Whether on purpose or by accident, the darkened space reminds considerably Kurt Schwitter’s Merzbau. The work is so to say a cave which is made of styrofoam that assumes sculptural composition in space as well as being the screens for Steina’s projections. Flooding the cubical objects of white plastic are moving images, some in focus, while others float as abstract color patterns.
In addition, the biological system that reminds the borderless horizon and never ending history, confirms the title Millennium Architecture. This show in its lofty lightness and experimental spirit seems to be paying a tribute to eternity, the signature of this exhibit as we approach a new millennium”.
— H. B. RUNOLFSSON