I sleep and unsleep
Anatol Pitt
24
January 2018
24
January
2018
9
February 2018
Night Screen
The camera in I sleep and unsleep (2017) looks out through a textured window as it slowly moves back-and-forth across the glass. The surface of this window, with its refractions, displaces any cohesive perspective of the other side:“I sleep and unsleep. On the other side of me, beyond where I lie down, the silence of the house touches infinity. I hear time falling, drop by drop, and no falling drop is heard falling.” (Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet, 1982)
The camera in I sleep and unsleep (2017) looks out through a textured window as it slowly moves back-and-forth across the glass. The surface of this window, with its refractions, displaces any cohesive perspective of the other side:“I sleep and unsleep. On the other side of me, beyond where I lie down, the silence of the house touches infinity. I hear time falling, drop by drop, and no falling drop is heard falling.” (Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet, 1982)
Anatol Pitt
Anatol Pitt is an artist, writer and arts worker based in Melbourne/Naarm. He works primarily with photography and video to think through relationships between perception, landscape, technology and history. He has held roles at Bus Projects, Gertrude Contemporary, West Space and Buxton Contemporary.