Michiko Tsuda

When The Light Glows Through The Window
  • When The Light Glows Through The Window
  • When The Light Glows Through The Window
  • When The Light Glows Through The Window
  • When The Light Glows Through The Window
Dual Screen Video / 2018
Duration: 3 min

Curator: Federica Buzzi
Thanks to: Mari Fukutome, Mitsuru Tokisato
Place: cello factory, London
In Collaboration with: LONDON EAR FESTIVAL
Michiko Tsuda’s When The Light Glows Through the Window is a site specific video installation realised for the Cello Factory. Expanding on Tsuda’s artistic interest in the representation of the self within the media, this work tackles the window as a site of visual communication.
Our experience of the world is framed through windows: structures of surveillance and voyeurism, they divide and connect oppositions, opening views on the outside and revealing perspectives on the inside. Similarly to the eye and the camera, the window is an apparatus to capture images, therefore it became a metaphor for visual media at large.
<<The window in the age of mass communication provides us with one more flat image. The window is a screen>> argues Beatriz Colomina in ‘Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture as Mass Media’. At a time of ubiquitous technology and media architecture, is there still a difference between the window’s transparent surface and the monitor’s liquid crystals? Screen-windows framing virtual spaces confront actual windows overlooking London’s urban landscape: Tsuda’s installation exposes the window’s fundamental function to construct views. (Text by Federica Buzzi)