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Alexandre Estrela

Waterfall
2010

Video, 60,2 x 80 x 10 cm.

Courtesy of the artist
Courtesy of the artist

Waterfall presents a vertiginous low-angle camera shot performed over a series of treetops, accompanied by the sound of a falling water drop. The succession of these sequences develops in the viewer a habituation to the psychedelic movements of the images. When the immersive hypnotic movement comes to a halt, the viewer projects a non-existent contrary perceptive movement into the still image. This perceptive phenomenon is called the ‘waterfall effect’.

Estrela, A. Meio Concreto. Fundação de Serralves, Porto, 2013. p. 96