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                              | CASCADES  2000 |   
                              | A PROJECTED 
                                VIDEO ENVIRONMENT BY STEINA |   
                              | Cascades was conceived in close 
                                collaboration with Sissu Palsdottir, who is responsible 
                                for the arrangement of the projection space. Cascades 
                                premiered in a 1999 exhibition titled Millennium 
                                Architecture in Gerdarsafn, Iceland. “Whether on purpose or by accident, the 
                                darkened space reminds considerably Kurt Schwitter’s 
                                Merzbau. The work is so to say a cave which is 
                                made of styrofoam that assumes sculptural composition 
                                in space as well as being the screens for Steina’s 
                                projections. Flooding the cubical objects of white 
                                plastic are moving images, some in focus, while 
                                others float as abstract color patterns.
 In addition, the biological system that reminds 
                                the borderless horizon and never ending history, 
                                confirms the title Millennium Architecture. This 
                                show in its lofty lightness and experimental spirit 
                                seems to be paying a tribute to eternity, the 
                                signature of this exhibit as we approach a new 
                                millennium”.
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                                H. B. RUNOLFSSON |  |   
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