The embodyment of the black chale, inspired on the essay ‘About Melancholy’ by Aristoteles.

“Wy is it that all great man in phylosophy, politics, literature or the arts, appear to be melancholy, and for some even such that they are found with sicknesses that find their origin in the black chale......”

“......this bodies juice, the black chale, is already by nature mixed in the body; it is characterised by a mixing proportion of hot and cold; those are the two components of its nature. Hence the black chale can be both very hot and very cold.

For the same thing can by nature have both properties, as well as water that is cold by nature

can become boiling hot if heated enough, even hotter that the flam itself; and also stone and metal can be heated that they are hotter than coals, though being cold by nature”

(from: About Melancholy by Aristoteles, translated by Philip van der Eijk, 2001)

TECHNICAL STATEMENT
The installation contains 1 video and 5 prints. The video is a projection of 9 minutes, the prints are stills form the video.

Their name revers to the number of the frame in the film.

The Installation was first exhibited in Island 6 gallery, Shanghai (China) and was part of the group exhibition Hidden Layers, Electric Cities.

Studio Ruz