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While we are looking upwards, below and around us, the bodies reach us from an endless deep. Very slowly. What are they, these glimmers of light in the darkness? Stars? Angels? The closer they get the more form they acquire. They are very young children, some of them still babies. One by one they come, and they go. Free of the background they float in space. Touchable with the fingertips until they disappear again.
Despite this peaceful beginning it turns out that Once So Bright is not quite so heavenly after all. Particularly as the images present you with an atmosphere of paradoxes: light/dark; reality/illusion; transparency/lack of transparency; close by/far away; happy/sorrowful. The music of composer David Dramm, dissonant yet soothing at the same time, strengthens this perception.
Once So Bright is about the loss of a dearly loved child and the wish to bring him/her back. Everlasting life on earth for your dear ones – for many a dream. Yet a dream which is becoming closer to reality each day. With the unlimited possibilities of biotechnology – cloning – and Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a solution.
This work of art poses existential questions for science and art. It is a culture-critical work which makes visible the relationship between man and emerging technologies.
Arent Weevers is a 3D pioneer in the Netherlands and exhibits regularly at home and abroad. With ‘Once So Bright’ he is conducting research on the dept possibility with an unique combination of 3D-stereoscopic and Virtual reality.