Gold is an interactive video installation which explores our obsession with super-stardom, and the extravagance that accompanies it. It acts as a ‘magic mirror’ through which you are the star. Showering in glittery gold, you materialize, morph and dematerialize into sparkling gold dust. Made during the rise of social media, myspace, youtube and the emergence of viral internet superstars, the work reflects on the “15 minutes of fame” Andy Warhol predicted. Our obsession to become ‘immortalized’ in sparkling glittery gold becomes a reality, if only for a brief moment.
As an interactive piece – unlike some of my other similar works (e.g. Body Paint, Reincarnation) – this work is more about not moving, as opposed to moving. When you stay still, a shimmering glittery gold image of yourself appears. As soon as you move, or even breathe, it crumbles and vanishes.
