Saw Elizabeth Price’s video installation “Sunlight” at Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea on 28th December 2013. She created artificial sunlight in her video via historic slides of the sun in k light, yellow nail varnish, a cymbal disc, characters from packets of ‘sun dot’ hosiery, the sounds of struck matches, finger-clicks and music. It was sublime, showing how we exist in and because of the sun, an all-encompassing force greater than us. She is right – we are all light!
There are dark notes too in displayed text “a reprise of a reprisal so bitter” – an ambiguous caution. She creates the sublime by evoking an ecstatic state not unlike what the poet P.B. Shelley was doing in 1819 in his poem Ode to the West Wind and exemplified by the following line from the poem:
Wild spirit, which are moving everywhere, Destroyer and preserver, hear, oh hear!
She has created a homage to our sublime, precarious, exquisite world.
More information about Elizabeth Price’s video installation Sunlight is available at: http://invisibledust.com/artists/elizabeth-price/
