BILL VIOLA (1951-2024)
Briefly

Often monumental in size and typically featuring the use of slow motion, his time-bending video installations powerfully affected viewers, drawing them in with their expressive subjects, rich tones, and languorous movements and releasing them gasping to the surface with a sense of having been submerged in unknown depths.
There's another dimension that you just know is there, that can be a source of real knowledge, and the quest for connecting with that and identifying that is the whole impetus for me to cultivate these experiences and to make my work.
It was like paradise. I didn't even know that I was drowning. . . . For a moment there was absolute bliss.
Read at Artforum
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