MOON, MARS, JUPITER TRILOGY, 2015
Shot during an early visit to Japan, this three-channel installation observes three scenes from daily life: window cleaners moving in near-choreographic suspension across Ginza's glass facades; children racing in disciplined relay formations in an Asakusa schoolyard; police officers training at dusk in Kyoto, filmed through a fence whose grid echoes the grids that recur throughout the work.
Each group embodies a layer of Japanese society - the working class, the future generation, the keepers of order. What holds them together is what Segal calls "social gravity" - the invisible force that shapes bodies, movements, and space from within. Presented simultaneously across three screens, the work forms a constellation: Moon, Mars, Jupiter. Three worlds, precisely observed, never fully decoded.
Screenings:
2021 'Water, Japanese, sky and what's beneath', Video installation. A-Ganre Festival, TMUNA Theater, Tel Aviv. Curators: Nitzan Cohen, Erez Maayan Shalev
2015 'Release: Return',Solo Exhibition, FUGA budapest center of architecture, Budapest, Curator: Lili Boros
Jupiter Marching, 2015
HD-video, 3'33"
(Filmed in Higashiyama ,Kyoto)
Mars Runners, 2015
HD-video, 2'20"
(Filmed in Asauksa, Tokyo)
Moon Walkers, 2015
HD-video, 5'07", no sound
(Filmed in Ginza, Tokyo)
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