Catalogue > Un extrait vidéo au hasard

A man spreads lime on a field in August, to prepare the earth for the autumn sowing. His action recorded and extracted from the surroundings and realistic conditions, becomes a ritual of a human caressing the land at dusk, reminding us of our relation and dependence to earth. The image obscured and slowed down confronts the viewer with an enigmatic time fragment of a ritual dance.

Vicky Betsou is a visual artist, working mainly with video installations. She lives and works in Athens. She studied Biology at Athens University, painting at Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA) and completed her MA in Digital Arts at ASFA (2000). She has been a teaching assistant in Multimedia and Video-art courses at ASFA since 2001 and in 2006 she was elected a Lecturer and is teaching Video Art in the graduate and postgraduate program at the same Institute. She has participated in research programs concerning Art and new Media and collaborated in E-Learning projects on Art education. Her work mainly addresses the complicated notion of time and memory, blurring the boundaries between objective and subjective time, emphasizing on the construction of temporal structures or the composition of time loops, engaged in the construction of multiple, multilevel narrations. Her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions and festivals in Greece and abroad.