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The Prix Ars Electronica Archive is a collection enabling search and viewing of all the submissions since 1987. The award-winning projects are documented with catalogue texts and audio-visual media. All other submissions can be searched by title/artist and displayed with year, category in list form. Please cite the credits (artwork name, artist and photographer) and only use the materials if your article is related to Ars Electronica.
Wave (Dalay)
Alexander Ponomarev
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During a trip to Tibet, Alexander Ponomarev drove a car from Kathmandu to Lhasa through several great passes in the Himalayas. During this difficult journey he visited Tibetan monasteries in the mountains, and from low perspectives he filmed their facades, which according to age-old tradition were hung with prayer flags that flapped in the wind. The facades, like sensitive devices, turned toward eternity; they peered at the world from Himalayan heights, accumulated waves of the World Ocean of Eternity, making them visible. This reminds us that wave-like movements, whether they are cosmic vibrations of wind, sea or earth, are reflected in each person. They resonate with our feelings of love and hope, and they can turn any of us into a free man of the world.
“Wave” is a 12-meter tunnel filled with water, the wave-like movements of which are caused by the artist’s ironic heavy breathing on a big screen, against the background of Tibetan prayer flags, exotic amplifiers of the agitated space
“Wave” is a 12-meter tunnel filled with water, the wave-like movements of which are caused by the artist’s ironic heavy breathing on a big screen, against the background of Tibetan prayer flags, exotic amplifiers of the agitated space
Alexander Ponomarev (RU), born in 1957, graduated from art school in 1973 and from the Nautical Engineering College in 1979. He lives and works in Moscow.