One of the few video artists to have truly broken through to mainstream audiences has arrived in Seoul for a solo exhibition.<br />His name is Bill Viola... and our Yim Yoon-hee shares some of his works with us in the next report.<br /><br />Cascading in the wrong direction,.... liquid flows from black, to red, to opaque white, finally becoming crystal clear.<br />American video artist Bill Viola has for many years experimented with time and the human experience,... and the relationship between the two. <br />He also points out how mass media has become a tool by which to witness the suffering of humanity.<br /><br />"In Buddhism, of course, all life is suffering, and a lot of other cultures have that same idea. Because we need to suffer."<br /><br />There's a unique characteristic to all of his works,... images that invoke strong emotions and hint at a spiritual world in the midst of reality... and images that seem to bend time.<br /><br /><br />"It's filmed very quickly, but it's shown at normal speeds, so 1 minute is stretched to 10 minutes, or even 80 minutes. It's a very special experience for the audience."<br /><br />Viola even recreates the suffering of four martyrs, tortured by the four elements. <br />And even though his works contain images of pain and sorrow, Viola wants them to represent the ideas of perseverance, endurance and sacrifice in our mass-media-dominated world. <br />Yim Yoon-hee, Arirang News.
