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Celestial Verse

Celestial Verse

The ceiling of the Mausoleum of Hafez in Shiraz blooms like a star-lit mandala, each mosaic tile a syllable in a timeless Persian poem. Rendered in the Slow Art format, the intricate geometry and luminous colors unfold in a gentle rhythm, drawing the eye inward and upward. Light dances across glazed tiles of turquoise, indigo, and gold, echoing the mystic beauty of Hafez’s poetry. This meditative visual offers a moment of stillness, inviting viewers to contemplate eternity through art, architecture, and verse.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Orbit of Silence

Orbit of Silence

In Several Circles (1926), Kandinsky invites viewers into a universe of pure abstraction, where form, color, and space drift in meditative harmony. Slowly unfolding in the Slow Art format, each circle pulses like a planet in motion, suspended in an infinite black cosmos. Subtle shifts in hue and scale reveal an unseen rhythm, encouraging deep visual contemplation. The silence of the video heightens the sensation of floating, making time feel elastic. This work transforms geometry into poetry, offering a tranquil journey through Kandinsky’s cosmic vision. This work can be seen at [The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/1992]

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Grey Harmony

Grey Harmony

James McNeill Whistler’s Arrangement in Grey and Black No.1, known as Whistler’s Mother (1871), is a serene meditation on form, mood, and maternal presence. Rendered in soft tonal harmonies, the painting presents the artist’s mother seated in profile, embodying quiet dignity and introspective stillness. Eschewing sentimentality, Whistler frames her like a compositional element, emphasizing balance and abstraction. In ikonoTV’s Slow Art format, every fold of fabric and brush of grey invites viewers to dwell in the silence, revealing the timeless poise of a figure rooted in love, memory, and minimalist grace. This work can be seen at [ The Musée d’Orsay, Paris,https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/artworks/arrangement-en-gris-et-noir-ndeg1-974]

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

Spring Mosaic

Spring Mosaic

Paul Klee’s May Picture (1925) is a luminous abstraction that transforms the essence of spring into a rhythmic grid of color and form. Part of his “Magic Square” series, the painting fragments the landscape into interlocking squares, like sunlit tiles or blooming fields, each radiating a distinct hue. Inspired by Klee’s 1914 journey to Tunisia, the composition reflects his deep engagement with color theory and spatial harmony, principles he later imparted at the Bauhaus. In ikonoTV’s Slow Art format, the viewer is invited to wander through this serene mosaic, where each square pulses with quiet vitality, evoking the gentle awakening of nature

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

Beth Derbyshire: Anthem

Beth Derbyshire: Anthem

Anthem is a trilogy of musical landscape films with a powerful choral component that explores ideas on land, place and nation. Three screens were suspended in the Mediterranean biome at the Eden Project. Anthem captures strata’s from wide ranging cultural and natural settings, to explore connections between people and landscape through balancing components of voice, music, word and image. Music composition by Ulrike Haage.

Duration : 28m
Maturity Level : all

Crimson Silence

Crimson Silence

Ilya Repin’s Ivan the Terrible and His Son (1885) captures a moment of unbearable remorse.Bathed in a haunting red glow, the Tsar cradles his dying son, whom he has fatally struck in a fit of rage.Painted with agonizing realism, Repin’s brushwork conveys the psychological horror of violence and the fragility of love. In ikonoTV’s Slow Art format, the viewer is invited to dwell in each anguished gaze and trembling hand, revealing layers of guilt, tenderness, and tragedy.A timeless meditation on power and the irreversible weight of human action. This work can be seen at [The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow,https://www.tretyakovgallery.ru/exhibitions/o/ivan-groznyy-i-syn-ego-ivan-vozvrashchenie/]

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Nicolas Rupcich: Big Pool

Nicolas Rupcich: Big Pool

Big Pool is a video about the largest swimming pool in the world (at the year of the video realization), located on the Chilean coast, in San Alfonso del Mar, Algarrobo. With over one-thousand meters in length, two-hundred and fifty million liters of water and a size equivalent to six-thousand domestic swimming pools, this milestone has entered into the Guinness Book of World Records as one of the world’s unique constructions. The video records this vast pool using shots that focus on the obvious artificiality of the location, it shows the buildings of the complex, the site and its relation to the surrounding landscape.

Duration : 6m
Maturity Level : all

Michael Najjar: Spacewalk

Michael Najjar: Spacewalk

Spacewalk explores linkages between space, gravity and the human body. A cosmonaut glides down into what seems to be an industrial ambiance. His meta-voice reflects fundamental thoughts in a text that is based on Isaac Newton’s manuscript De Gravitatione.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Rocha Pitta: The Secret Sharer

Rocha Pitta: The Secret Sharer

Sao Paulo, Brazil-based artist Thiago Rocha Pitta’s (b. 1980) temporal and sensitive body of work depicts interventions with the environment from his native Brazil. Through watercolors, photographs, sculpture, and video, Rocha Pitta focuses on small yet emotive elements of the natural world that are simultaneously ominous and melancholy. Driven by a preoccupation with the passage of time, particularly in natural settings, Rocha Pitta often manipulates the pace of his work, confronting his viewer with quiet, curious introspection and an open-ended sense of longing.

Duration : 8m
Maturity Level : all

Rocha Pitta: Temporal Map of a non Sedimented Land #6

Rocha Pitta: Temporal Map of a non Sedimented Land #6

Thiago Rocha Pitta’s temporal and sensitive art often depicts environments from his native Brazil. Through watercolor, photography, sculpture, and video, Rocha Pitta focuses on small, yet emotive elements of the natural world, whether ocean tide, rainclouds, or trails of sap. In this exhibition, Rocha Pitta develops his study of nature through an installation of five videos, each depicting a different desert terrain in Argentina. Referred to as “maps,” these videos capture a deceptively small physical alteration in the land that causes it to either fall, collapse, or become wet or dry. 

Duration : 6m
Maturity Level : all

Lohner Carlson: Bright Clouds 1 Wolken

Lohner Carlson: Bright Clouds 1 Wolken

Lohner Carlson is the name of an artist duo between Henning Lohner and Van Carlson. Since Carlson’s death in 2011, their act has been continued by Lohner. German culture critic Detlef Wolff has called Lohner an - unceasingly curious artist capable of looking closely, continuously able to discover the extraordinary in the seemingly ordinary - . He said that Lohner Carlson’s work rises far above the otherwise often tedious depths of video art and reaches its peak because Lohner and Carlson command dealing with the camera perfectly.

Duration : 16m
Maturity Level : all

Lohner Carlson: Canary Wharf Building Cleaners

Lohner Carlson: Canary Wharf Building Cleaners

Lohner Carlson is the name of an artist duo between Henning Lohner and Van Carlson. Since Carlson’s death in 2011, their act has been continued by Lohner. German culture critic Detlef Wolff has called Lohner an - unceasingly curious artist capable of looking closely, continuously able to discover the extraordinary in the seemingly ordinary - . He said that Lohner Carlson’s work rises far above the otherwise often tedious depths of video art and reaches its peak because Lohner and Carlson command dealing with the camera perfectly.

Duration : 17m
Maturity Level : all

Lohner Carlson: Walden Pond Fish

Lohner Carlson: Walden Pond Fish

Lohner Carlson is the name of an artist duo between Henning Lohner and Van Carlson. Since Carlson’s death in 2011, their act has been continued by Lohner. German culture critic Detlef Wolff has called Lohner an - unceasingly curious artist capable of looking closely, continuously able to discover the extraordinary in the seemingly ordinary - . He said that Lohner Carlson’s work rises far above the otherwise often tedious depths of video art and reaches its peak because Lohner and Carlson command dealing with the camera perfectly.

Duration : 14m
Maturity Level : all

Alexander Ponomarev: Baffin Figure

Alexander Ponomarev: Baffin Figure

Baffin Figure is one of a Thousand Ways to Defeat Entropy. The exhibition is one of the official collateral programs of the 54th Venice Biennale. Curated by Alexander Ponomarev and Nadim Samman, the exhibition comprises of  four contemporary artists have been commissioned to create a site-specific work engaging with the theme of entropy: Adrian Ghenie, Hans Op de Beeck, Ryoichi Kurokawa, and Ponomarev himself.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Midnight Aquarium

Midnight Aquarium

Paul Klee’s Fish Magic (1925) is a dreamlike fusion of land, sea, and sky, where fish, stars, and mysterious figures drift in a twilight dance. Layered with watercolor, gouache, and ink on black canvas, the painting glows from within, as if lit by an inner world of imagination. Klee blends childlike wonder with symbolic depth, inviting viewers to explore the subconscious currents of his art. In the Slow Art format, each luminous detail surfaces gradually, offering a tranquil immersion into a universe both whimsical and profound. This work can be seen at [The Philadelphia Museum of Art,https://philamuseum.org/collection/object/51027]

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Cao Guimarães: Concerto para Clorofila

Cao Guimarães: Concerto para Clorofila

Cao Guimarães works on the crossing between the cinema and the visual arts. This film, Concerto para Clorofila, is a conjunction of light and shadow, forms, colors and textures that herald the necessary interrelationship of all that is alive and vibrant.

Duration : 7m
Maturity Level : all

Cao Guimarães: Limbo

Cao Guimarães: Limbo

Cao Guimarães works on the crossing between the cinema and the visual arts. About this film, Limbo, the artist specifies: - A place out of place, an in-between. A hole in space and in time. Playground for the ones that came before, those who have gone early. Eternal windy Sunday.

Duration : 17m
Maturity Level : all

Cao Guimarães: Sopro

Cao Guimarães: Sopro

Cao Guimarães works on the crossing between the cinema and the visual arts. Sopro is the Portuguese translation of Blow, it expresses the relationship between what is inside and what is outside. The multi-formed translucence of a bubble exhibits the world that contains it and is contained by it. The bubble that never bursts is a metaphor of the continuity of things.

Duration : 5m
Maturity Level : all

Donna Conlon: Urban Phantoms

Donna Conlon: Urban Phantoms

In front of the skyline of Panamá City, pieces of trash stack up to construct a new city. Donna’s work is a socio-archaeological inquiry into her immediate surroundings. She observes details in her local environment and daily life, and then focuses on them in ways that reveal the idiosyncrasies of human nature and the contradictions inherent to our contemporary lifestyle.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Sebastian Díaz Morales: Insight

Sebastian Díaz Morales: Insight

Insight is the total abstraction. A carefully assembled film-crew appears like a tableau vivant facing the viewer. Then suddenly, they shatter- an analogy of breaking through the surface to expose the simulation- a mirror slowly explodes into a thousand pieces. Filmed in beautifully rendered high definition Insight is a tribute to the camera obscuras of old mingled with a critical spirit directed towards the mass media today. Regarded as a phenomenon brought about by a world lacking distinction between real and simulacra, Diaz Morales borrows media industry tactics to expose and undermine. Revealing rather than concealing his methods allows for a moment of realisation to occur. As the pieces of glass crumble into tiny galaxies, context is deconstructed and the universalising tendency of Diaz Morales’ practice literally portrayed. With timeless grace the artist contemplates the nature of existence.

Duration : 11m
Maturity Level : all

Sebastian Díaz Morales: The Lost Object

Sebastian Díaz Morales: The Lost Object

The Lost Object is the final video in a trilogy that examines the complex mechanisms of how we perceive the constructed nature of reality - and how this construction is performed, both in the realm our imagination and the one of film. As curator, Cuauhtémoc Medina notes in a recent monograph dedicated to Diaz Morales’ work, the artist approaches film as a factory of simulacra, a conceptual thread that carries throughout his trilogy, which began with Insight (2012) and was followed by Suspension (2014).

Duration : 14m
Maturity Level : all

Sebastian Díaz Morales: Oracle

Sebastian Díaz Morales: Oracle

The alluring images in his films speak clearly for themselves, for they usually lack of sound. This aspect lets the artist give the audience all they need to create their own individual and personal story, without imposing any set structure. The video installation Oracle alternates a series of apparently random images that are not linked one to the other. They just follow on, like the tesserae in a mosaic that is still to be completed. The title seems to allude to the tradition of the Greek Oracle as a source of wisdom and prophecy, capable of offering a vision of the future through a combination of elements from the present. A plastic bag moved by the wind, a solitary man staring at the sea, and a solar eclipse are just some of the images that appear on the screen as propitiatory signs, and with which the audience can create their own free response.

Duration : 11m
Maturity Level : all

Eden Unbound

Eden Unbound

Yang Jiechang’s Tale of the 11th Day (2009–2014) is a sweeping, nearly 20-meter-long silk panorama that reimagines paradise as a realm of uninhibited connection. Inspired by Boccaccio’s Decameron, this monumental work blends traditional Chinese ink techniques with vivid mineral pigments to depict humans and animals engaging in playful, affectionate, and erotic interactions. The serene landscape, rendered in meticulous detail, challenges societal norms and invites contemplation on harmony, desire, and the fluidity of boundaries. In ikonoTV’s Slow Art format, each scene unfolds gradually, encouraging viewers to immerse themselves in this utopian vision where love and equality reign. This work can be seen at [The M+ Museum, Hong Kong,https://www.mplus.org.hk/en/collection/objects/black-and-white-mustard-seed-garden-tale-of-the-11th-day-series-2016788/]

Duration : 5m
Maturity Level : all

Sebastian Díaz Morales: The Man with the Bag

Sebastian Díaz Morales: The Man with the Bag

The theme of ’The Man with the Bag’ is very simple when you define and see it as an existentialistic story. What you see is what, metaphorically speaking, you get. A man walking a path in a deserted and open landscape, carrying a bag containing all his belongings. Again and again he stumbles over the same obstacle, a stone. Running from his fears, from a never materialized sound. Crossing limits, going always in a same direction. This simple storyline encloses, as a metaphor, a portion of the basics of man’s existence. From that notion you can relate and bring the signification of actions, subjects and objects of the movie into multiple relations. This is because the elements of the movie are general metaphors of the bases of our existence.

Duration : 39m
Maturity Level : all