Ascension + Depression Marquis - Myriam Thyes

DEPRESSION MARQUIS (2009, 2:23): The glass elevator at the luxurious hotel Marriott Marquis in New York rides down – the long ride ends in glacier ice. A metaphor for depressions which can affect people living in abundance.

ASCENSION (2004, 1:11): The glass elevator at the luxurious hotel Marriott Marquis in New York brings you to “heaven” … We are brought up and tought to strive for higher things – success, wealth, honour, and/or spiritual enlightenment. ASCENSION shows – in a brief and ironic way – this aspiration and its compensation.

In the video diptych or 2 channel installation, the elevator rides in opposite directions. Ascension is running twice during one presentation of Depression Marquis.

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ASCENSION has been part of videoDictionary since 2004, and in this context the video has been screened and exhibited several times:

2008 CaixaForum, Lleida, ES
2007 La Noche en Blanco, Matadero, Madrid, ES
2006 University of Alicante, ES
2005 Impakt Festival, Casco Gallery, Utrecht, NL
2005 Centro de Arte Santa Mónica, Barcelona, ES
2005 La Casa Encendida, Madrid, ES
2005 Image Forum Festival, Park Tower Hall, Tokyo, JP
2005 Island Art Film and Video Festival 05, UGC Cinemas (West Indian Quay) and Prenelle Gallery, London, UK
2004 La Casa Encendida, Madrid, ES