Veronica Perez Karleson

Artist

Colurolias

Video AAC, H.264, 1920 × 1080, 01:41 x 7 videos. Sequence: 12:00. 2011

A manifesto of the good life

Seven states of consciousness from the excitement of the physical, concrete and personal to the trance of the spiritual, abstract and collective.

Rhythm

Each video pulses at a rate determined by its duration (101 minutes) divided successively by the golden ratio (1.6181). 

Excitement

The resulting rhythm in each colour coincides with the cycles per second of the brain in different phases of excitement.

Beauty

The colours and images are based on the chakras and chromotherapy, and the shapes on Platonic sacred geometry.

Video still of a red screen with some cell like pattern and a square in the middle with a vertical oblique blurred slit to the side.

Enjoy food and sex

Red

Square

Belonging, procreation, survival, logic, sight.

Excitement

101 beats

Video still of an orange screen with some dancing legs on the left side of the screen, with flamenco shoes and the bottom of a wide skirt.

Dance to the future you want to see

Orange

Rhombus

Joy, delight, movement, magnetic.

Excitement

62 beats

Video still of a yellow screen with a washing machine with a triangular door and a superimposed gem with some rays coming out from it.

Trust your power

Yellow

Triangle

Power, purity, hearing, tonic.

Anxiety (rapid beta)

38 beats

Video still of a green screen with leaves of a tree with dappled light, superimposed on a sink with two tall taps, a bowl with a spoon beside it, some plants and a hand coming in from the right, adding some drops of essential oil to the cream in the bowl.

Live in harmony with yourself and your surroundings

Green

Circle

Balance, harmony, smell

Normal state (beta)

22 beats

Video still of a blue screen with a table with a pen, some wine glasses and a bottle of transparent liquid, a pile of books and some unintelligible text forming a trapezoid in the middle.

Be yourself and express it

Blue

Open chalice

Truth, being oneself, taste.

Calm (alpha, normal state in animals)

14 beats

Video still of a violet screen with a pentagon pointing down in the centre containing the upside down image of a Moroccan tea pot with water above it.

Distinguish what is important from what is superfluous

Violet

Pentagon facing downward

Wisdom, discernment, touch.

Meditation (seta, objects start to appear transparent)

9 beats

Video still of a magenta screen in different tones, with several blurred pentagons of different sizes one inside another.
Video still 1920 × 1080. 2011

Let go

Magenta

Pentagon, symbol of perfection

Freedom, plenitude.

Trance (delta, there is no difference between what is heard, seen, and felt, time and space become interchangeable)

6 beats

“What you recognise to be inferior you must immediately leave behind.
Lingering with negativity invites a disaster now”

I Ching

Exhibition:

Project 101 video works

Colurolias is part of an installation of 101 silent videos of 101 seconds by 40 artists. The Lab Gallery, New York, 2011.