Everything's Happening
Suara Welitoff
(American, born in 1951)
2010
Medium/TechniqueSingle-channel video (color, silent)
4:3 aspect ratio
DimensionsDuration: 9 minutes
Aspect Ratio: 4:3
Aspect Ratio: 4:3
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds donated by Manuel de Santaren
Accession number2010.497
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In a single, fixed-camera shot, Everything’s Happening silently depicts a frenzied flight of individual bodies in and out of its frame. Often blurred, their fragile figures seem to lose their constitution as whole beings. Are they a school of fish? A pack of floating microbes, or birds in migration? Their varying distance from the camera provides a sense of depth in space on the flat plane. The video’s silence, serene black and white palette, and moments of nearly pure white evoke the peaceful pauses within our feverishly fast cycles of life.
ProvenanceThe artist, with Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA: sold to museum June 2010 (Accession date: June 16, 2010)CopyrightBy Suara Welitoff © 2010 film/video
