Twirl

Using a wide range of mediums including photography, film, installation and spatial arrangements in her practice which spans from the 1970s to the present, Barbara Bloom takes a closer look at the experiences of the audience by exploring the mechanisms of perception. In Bloom’s video installation "Twirl", the first version of which was shown on multiple screens in her solo exhibition "Broken" that focuses on the themes of accidents, rupture, balance and risk, girls in flared skirts twirl around themselves. The childish gesture presented on a small iPod screen framed like a painting is evocative of the idea of balance and somehow reminds us of colour wheels. When the wheel, the core of colour theory, spins, the different colours blend into one white circle. In Barbara Bloom’s "Twirl", skirts of different colours twirl against a white background, appearing one after another and creating a subjective colour chart.