Climate Series, 2006-2007
A collection of short pieces defined by a very specific moment I was trying to capture in the crossing between night and day, nature and urban space. All pieces were shot in Nicosia, Cyprus.
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Sunrise
Capturing the feel of the elusive transition between night and day.
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The Entertainer
A sombre anecdote referencing the kitschy music video Another Chance.
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Billboards
A meditation on the beauty and seductiveness of backlit billboard signs.
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Transition
A study of the moment when the city street lights suddenly turn off at dawn signalling the beginning of a new day. A moment which expresses a very specific feeling embodying the soul of the urban dweller.
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Sunrise
Produced for www.newclimates.com.
"Sunrise by Peter Eramian presents a seemingly natural vista and poses the question of its artificiality. Focusing on the sun, a focal point in the climate change debate, Eramian merges two video layers in an alternating grid—one depicting the sun rising in real time, the other with it setting at an accelerated rate—seeming to reference both our mediated experience of nature and our anxiety about the timeline of climate change. Sunrise emphasizes the global dimension of the climate change crisis and the technologies through which it is filtered. The audio track consists of a radio broadcast (including a report on climate change) and ambient sounds from the artist’s native Cyprus. The image itself is segmented into a pixel grid that references the work’s digitization and dispersal across the globe."