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B l a c k   R i v e r 

 

 

Installation and Video Art

 

Japanese washi-paper, ink, natural pigment, kimono-silk from kimonos donated by kimono teacher of Kurodahara community, wood, video projection.

 

Exhibited in Coburg House Gallery, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland. Exhibition: “In Basho’s Footsteps.” 

 

This installation combines physical art (six hanging scrolls or kakejiku, done in traditional Japanese style) and new media – a video of a moving black river that stitches the paintings together. Black River is a visual expression of the artist’s 2,000km, 3-month long journey through the mountains of Japan in the footsteps of 17th century haiku poet Matsuo Basho. Each scroll accompanies a haiku written along the way, and a stage of Gleizer's physical journey through Japan. In Black River, Gleizer explores the themes of Basho’s own work, but also the vast distance time and globalization have created between the ancient and modern Japan, as well as her own distance, as a westerner, from Basho and his understanding of impermanence.

Combining ancient techniques and modern technology, Black River reflects a search for stillness that remains unchanged since Basho’s time, in a fast-changing contemporary world.

 

 

 

 

 

To read more about the In Basho's Footsteps Adventure.

 

To see more art inspired by the In Basho's Footsteps Adventure

 

 

Left: Artist with scrolls

Below: In Basho's Footsteps Exhibition Opening at Coburg House Galleries, Edinburgh

2016

• Dionysus Lives

• Dionysus Lives: Déjeuner sur l'herbe

• Dionysus: Rites to Rave

• Black River Installation

2015​

• New Winds Over Alba

• Black River (In Basho's Footsteps)

• The Calligraphy of Dance

• Your Horizons

• The Blue Skies of Your Horizons (for Chandi)

• with the lights off... (for Chandi)

• what makes the desert beautiful...

2014

• In Basho's Footsteps

• Video Haiku Series

• Leaf Storm

• The Minotaur

• What the Thunder Said

• Titleless Mythology

• Apotropaios

• Fahrenheit 451

2013​​​​

• Dragonfly

• The Wolf Hunt

• 5 Cards

• Fossil Fuel

• The Wasteland

2012​

• The Art in Biology

• Lake Baikal Circumnavigation

• Fear and Trembling Series

• Limbo

• David

• The Lover

• Reincarnation

• 3 Wolves

• Les Bouteilles

• Black Light

• Self Portrait Series

• 4 Views of Mt. Adams

2011

• In The Library of Lost Objects

• Uncovered: Drawing Series

2010

• Lola

• The Brick Prison