THE SOTA PROJECT
Sunday, 28 June 2009
The Sota Project is a large-scale video installation that reenacts a controversial story from the Talmud. It is a story about jealousy, trust and mortal love that follows an “adulterous” woman who is put on trial by her suspecting husband while her sister helps her fight for her life.
The four walls of the exhibition space will be covered by video projections allowing the narrative to develop in time and space in parallel. Not only a “moving picture” but an attempt to create a “moving mural”, Sota will explore the relationship between architecture and narrative and will offer a new form of a ‘spatial narrative’. Using old visual storytelling techniques (as we can see them mainly in murals and tapestries) and new technologies (sync video, motion sensors, animation) Sota is an attempt to create a hybrid between ancient media and new media both visually and literally. The text can thus burst into both spatial and time-based narratives and calls into question the notion of a coherent truth.
This work is a contemporary re-interpretation of an ancient story that is very short and has many ‘blind spots’. It will use the three-dimensionality of the space in order to present different stories and alternate truths as understood by each character. This will be done by breaking the solid screen into parallel images, readings and possibilities. On two parallel walls of the exhibition space, the parallel stories of the two sisters will be screened simultaneously. The developments in the plot influence the locations of the characters within the room, for example, at one point one sister seeks refuge in her sibling’s house, and her figure disappears from one wall and reappears on the other. Moreover, the spectators movement within the space echoes that of the protagonists activating the viewer’s body as the narrative develops.
Watch the Sota project trailer:
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listen to a PIUT (liturgic song) ‘Little Sister (Achot Ketana) performed by Michal Cohen:
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