ABOUT

The green ray is an optical phenomenon that occurs during the last moment of the sun's setting. Rarely seen from land, and then only when the horizon over the sea is 100% clear, it appears here, on a few pages of a flip-book which documents an entire sunset in Madagascar. The stills are taken from Tacita Dean's 2001 video “Green Ray on Madagascar.”

“When asked, ‘What is the relation between sound and image in your work?’ Dean answered, ‘My interest resides in this gap between the sound and the image… I require sound to have its own autonomy.’ Thus, in opposition to an approach to cinema in which the viewer experiences a sense of identification with the spectacle, Dean creates a mode of apprehension in which the observer feels at odds with what she sees. (…) The slightly disjointed relationship between the sound and image, compounded by the clearly physical presence of the projector creates caesurae, which force the beholder to return to real-time, lived bodily experience rather than that of the cinematic.” - Paula Carabell