The Venetian Mirror 2018
Winner of the Moscow International Foto Award 2019
Moving Image Gold Award
Screened at The Venice Biennale 2019
Alive In The Universe
May 19th 2019
Palazzo Pesaro Papafava
In collaboration with Tamar Yoseloff. All text ©Tamar Yoseloff 2018 all images and soundtrack © Bill Jackson 2018
The Venetian Mirror 2018
Single Screen version
The Venetian Mirror 2018
Two Screen version
shown at the Venice Biennale 2019
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The Venetian Mirror
Stills
written by Tamar Yoseloff
When I first hung it in our bedroom we could not sleep all night, it was like having the moon for company,
so bright it shone
Jim Ede
1
Silver has its day, recedes
to reveal the surface beneath
gone black -
Its own Dorian moment
It reflects back what we have
not been able to understand
an abundance lost, just hinted
In the etched leaves, tendrils lacing
the frame. What’s inside is
rust, a pox on a lovely face
still we trade its dimensions
for our own : dumbstruck, vain
2
The basilica behind a slick
of rain, gold diminished
to don. The colour of nothing,
The bulk of it jagged
on the darkening sky
The end of day, odic light
illuminates a shrivelled rose;
all the sadness we contain
in this drop of rain, its
crystallised gloom
3
The ghost hulk of the palazzo
leans into the canal. Narcissus crazed
Tarnished jewels, pink marble
Dulled to flesh. Shiver of a ballroom
out of season, sliver of broken
glass, the first glistening of frost
as the campana strikes,
mourns itself in echo