21 Songs

Sarkis

  • type of object: installation
  • date: 2017
  • material/technique: 21 neon lights
  • dimensions: various dimensions
  • inventory No.: I-8
  • image licensed under: CC BY-SA

The work created for the 2017 exhibition Sarkis. Angel Rainbow at Zachęta consists of 21 neon signs in rainbow colours (3 sequences of 7 colours). Neon signs are the hallmark of the artist, who uses light and text, for whom the context of place is also very important. At Zachęta, he invited women employees to work with him, and they selected and transcribed by hand phrases from a set prepared by the artist. Neon signs were made on their basis. Their concise form sometimes resembles a haiku, some of them are quotations from 20th-century French poetry, and the title of the installation also refers to lyricism.

Phrases:

In the crystal blue of the morning           

Life trembles    

Love smiles                       

In the summer rain

I can hear it: it’s night

An actor laughs and cries

All this irresponsible silence      

Snow at dusk                  

Night without stars, dark night

Black rain                           

The guardian angel of the sweeper                       

Pure stone carried by the river

I watched the high sun

Stars in the water                                          

Autumn mountain                                         

The earth is blue like an orange

She dies, she is born

The future is space

Winter moon   

Cool breeze                                      

Crystal tears     

 

 

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