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Screen Lovers

A monumental video projection onto a windowless wall of a five story building with downtown Los Angeles skyline in the background. The video shows an extreme closeup of a human eye filmed through a vibrant colorful array of screen reflections, it is ambiguous whether the eye is emanating light or receiving light.

SCREEN LOVERS

4k color video with sound, 2022

Through a series of extreme close-ups, Screen Lovers (2022) examines the way we modulate ourselves between onscreen and offscreen realities—as attention, intimacy, and surveillance operate across digital and physical space. Tracking the gaze, Screen Lovers (2022) attempts to discern forms of shelter, thought, and fluid time that are produced via screens and projection. Screen Lovers (2022) questions how we might participate in these hybrid encounters, authoring greater agency for ourselves– navigating welcome and unwelcome forms of visibility, and fissures between identity, technology, and the body.

A monumental video projection onto a windowless wall of a five story building with downtown Los Angeles skyline in the background. The video shows an extreme closeup of a human eye filmed through a vibrant colorful array of screen reflections, it is ambiguous whether the eye is emanating light or receiving light.
A monumental video projection onto a windowless wall of a five story building with downtown Los Angeles skyline in the background. The video shows an extreme closeup of a human eye filmed through a vibrant colorful array of screen reflections, it is ambiguous whether the eye is emanating light or receiving light.
A monumental video projection onto a windowless wall of a five story building with downtown Los Angeles skyline in the background. The video shows an extreme closeup of a human eye filmed through a vibrant colorful array of screen reflections, it is ambiguous whether the eye is emanating light or receiving light.
A monumental video projection onto a windowless wall of a five story building with downtown Los Angeles skyline in the background. The video shows an extreme closeup of a human eye filmed through a vibrant colorful array of screen reflections, it is ambiguous whether the eye is emanating light or receiving light.
A monumental video projection onto a windowless wall of a five story building with downtown Los Angeles skyline in the background. The video shows an extreme closeup of a human eye filmed through a vibrant colorful array of screen reflections, it is ambiguous whether the eye is emanating light or receiving light.

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Sarah Rara’s multi-disciplinary practice—including video, sound, writing, performance—explores the position of witness within fragile systems. Rara is a contributing member of the ongoing project lucky dragons (with Luke Fischbeck). Their work, solo and in collaboration, has been presented at such institutions as the Hammer Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art (as part of the 2008 Whitney Biennial), the Centre Georges Pompidou, Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, London’s Institute for Contemporary Art, PS1 in New York, REDCAT and LACMA in Los Angeles, MOCA Los Angeles, the 54th Venice Biennale, and the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, among others. Their first volume of poems “Earth Breakup” was released by Hesse Press Fall 2015. The chapbook “Chronic Objector” was released by Miniature Garden Spring 2017. Rara is a 2018 recipient of the LACMA Art + Technology fellowship. Rara is Assistant Professor of Moving Image at Williams College.

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