numiniama

Installation view

numiniama

video still

Numiniama, loop, ©2003

Numiniama is viewed through a peephole that has been installed in a pre-existing structure. In past installations, Numiniama has been installed in a gallery receptions desk, a dinner table for a special event and in a writing desk for a private collection.

Looking inside the small hole, the viewer sees a fast-paced fragmented video of a man eating a person's foot. The image are reminiscent of a piranha eating voraciously and evokes questions of the madness of what is hidden underneath the table where society has told us not to look or more pointedly inside the dangerous territory of our desires. The sound is a high-pitched buzzing sound that races and mimics the erotic anxiety and psychological drama of the performer.