Review of a strand specific artist

Bill Viola is a well-known video artist in contemporary art, I find his work so interesting and unique, because there is such a meaning and era behind his pieces that make you want to watch them or go and see them, because they are so different. His artwork mainly focuses on human experiences such as birth, death and consciousness so they tend to grip the viewer straight away as his pieces discuss such important areas of life. I looked and researched about his work as I wanted my work to hold as much meaning and depth to it than his, as I always finds it attracts the viewer so much more, so I started to give my work more meaning and relating it more to myself.

Nantes Triptych, 1992, Video and mixed media,
Duration 29 minutes and 46 seconds.

Recently went to The Tate Modern where I got the chance to see his video installation of Tiny Deaths what was amazing everybody who walked into the pitch black room was nervous, scared and had no idea what was going on until flashes of projections came on 3 screens at different times with sounds that was unknown. Seeing this in real life it has made me want to go in the direction of video or installation art as I’ve always wanted to get a reaction from a viewer and Bill Viola got a fantastic bunch of mixed reactions from the viewer because of how unusual and scary his piece was but the viewers would be for sure talking about this people for quite a while.  

Tiny Deaths, 1993, Video, 3 projections, black and white and sound 

Images taken from: http://www.tate.org.uk/