This is a long video of a beach, the gulf shore to be exact. The time is set to just before sunset, at the pinkish cusp of something about to go down. This is a place, somewhere people can dwell.
The shore features largely in Dib’s work, its infinitely poetic qualities, a constant ebb and flow, a collision of bodies, land and sea. Threshold is a kind of homage to Thierry Kuntzel’s Wave and to Andy Warhol’s Sunsets. Mostly, it is a tribute, a meditation, on the specificities of place and on our relationship to natural systems. Post Hurricane Harvey, this piece is part of a larger series of toxic and luring landscapes. Activating 3d space, the video slows down, the audio slows to a deep rumble, and the color desaturates as viewers get closer to the screen; and when the video is at a near standstill, viewers can ‹liquify› the image with their bodies. In a sense, the piece gestures to our clumsy attempts to push back nature and to presume we can control things so large they border on the unfathomable.
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