Bjørn Melhus
«Weeping»

In «Weeping,» the projected, larger-than-life and visually-parallel portraits of two almost identical-looking preachers cast a spell that subjects viewers to a psycho-carrousel of insistent advancements and threatening exhortations, in the name of conveying their message of redemption. In contrast to previous works, «Weeping» is not edited. Nor does it tell a story. The found texts used by Melhus are taken directly from biblical passages, but emptied for the most part of their content. He devotes himself entirely to the suggestive power of (the) speech.