The key word for Segal’ s work is ‘place’. Here memory, history, human activities, and the traces of particular places are epically drawn on the screen. Furthermore, his video projects are composed and positioned such that they mutually influence each other, creating a sublimated site-specific installation in which the exhibition space itself forms an element of the work. His solid video images feel as if they are three-dimensional objects, and the artist’ s own body appears on the screen and transforms the space as a heavy bronze sculpture would.

The title of the exhibition, ‘GROUND LEVEL’ (Ground State) refers to the state in quantum mechanics with the lowest energy that an atom or molecule can have. There is the least motion in that state. However, in this exhibition, movement can be found in the videos. These are not only physical displacements, such as vertical and horizontal movements and rotation, but the flow of history, circulation of images, and exchanges of life and death. Segal creates ‘GROUND LEVEL’ by balancing the energies of different vectors in the multi-layered space of the gallery. The last piece of the exhibition puzzle, which will be completed during the residency period in Tokyo, has as motifs two stories of history involving life and death in the two cultures, Judea and Japan. Focusing on the place as a trace that continues to exist even after many years have gone by, Segal will show the shapes of lost characters in the stories, and in ourselves; who exist in the same historical line as them.