Location- St Paul's Cathedral, London.
Description- this small yet modest video dominates its surroundings with strong imagery. The first video art piece to be commissioned by a church in Britain. As you enter the church there is dominant familiar biblical imagery all around you. Then you approach this well situated video art piece in congruent with the architecture. On the left a man is being enveloped by earth and pulled up, a woman is tied by her arms and being bombarded by a strong wind, a man is being engulfed by fire and then transcends and the last image is of a man hung upside down and being drenched with water.
Experience- Shockingly to some these images of martyrdom and sacrifice are not unfamiliar in these surroundings, in fact this is almost a 21st century adaptation of the art that surrounds it. you have a strong feeling of belief and the power of nature. This is a really good example of a well chosen site.
