Radiating Squares is an abstract film for installation made by layering footage from Lithuanian folk textiles and their looms. Optical illusions woven into the frabrics form connections between the modern optical paintings of the Kazys Varnelis House Museum collection and the folk textile traditions of Lithuania. A weaving process between hundreds of video tracks mirrors the intense labour required to create these textiles. The resulting choreography of movement, texture, and color plays with the ways these patterns interact with our physiological and psychological experience of vision. An illusion of depth and a sensation of instability permiate throughout the visuals, pointing towards the halucinatory and the ethereal.
Materials: 7min 2K Video Projection Loop.
Installation View: Kazys Varnelis House Museum on the occasion of the Etnografinis Opartas exhibition. Comissioned for the National Museum of Lithuania.
Photocredits: Silvestras Samsonas (National Museum of Lithuania).
