Maya Zack
Black and White Rule
HD video, 17:45 min
2011
Courtesy the artist and
Marie-Laure Fleisch Gallery, Brussels

THE BLANK CONTEMPORARY ART
99 WORDS WITH MAYA ZACK

The video Black and White Rule by Artist Maya Zack is the 2nd part of her Memory-Trilogy. It deals with the human attempt to impose order and form onto reality through training and discipline procedures.
On an oversized chess-board two poodle dogs submit to the orders of their trainer while through the use of a Camera-Obscura their actions are being monitored and registered by a clerk in her office located alongside the chess-board. At a certain moment the orderly routine is disrupted…
Black and White Rule is a visual experience and a homage to the art of drawing.