FALLING GIRL DESCRIPTION
Falling Girl is an interactive narrative installation that allows the viewer to participate in a tale about the shortness of our life and the petty concerns that often occupied each one of us.
As viewers watch, a young woman suddenly leaps forward and jump off a skyscrapper. Not as an act of self destruction, but rather a dive into the life itself. During her slow decend, the falling girl fleedingly interacts with people and events occuring in the building. This work attempt to create the experience as emotionally engaging as a movie yet one where people remain aware of their own body and their social relationships to others. As the girl falls, she slowly gets older and older, daylight fades, night falls and passes. At dawn, when the girl finally lands on the sidewalk, she is an aged woman bearing no resemblance to the young girl who started her fall minutes before.
An interactive white wall with camera situated in the room connected to a computer, capture images of viewers’ shadows that reappear silhouettes in the apartment that the falling girl passes. Viewers are rewarded by a sense of presence within the piece that compels them to understand the motivation and meaning behind the work.
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