Nadia Hironaka’s My Stars brings together National and International, two video works that explored vacant architectural spaces. In this installation, two star shapes are cut into the surface of the gallery wall. Recessed behind the wall are two kaleidoscopes, also in the shape of stars. The videos are viewed from the gallery though the kaleidoscopes, giving the effect of endlessly unfolding spaces, challenging a fixed perspective and upsetting the perception of surface and depth. The mirrored images visible from within the walls, and the geometric forms and colors depicted in the videos, spill out onto the surface of the gallery wall in the form of a wall painting, emphasizing the horizontal panning motion of the moving image.

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