Over the past 13 years, beginning in 2004, Kleinberg developed six high-definition digital projection pieces,
BLOOD ROLL, D-ROLL, P-SPIN, "Tierra Sin Males", KAIROS and BALAFRE, with
related prints, drawings and paintings. BLOOD ROLL was shown first in
November 2004 in Seoul, Korea, in a major international show at the
Total Museum, curated by Chul Lee, commissioner of the previous Gwangju
Biennale. In 2005, she showed BLOOD ROLL during the opening of the
Venice Biennale, projecting it across the Campo Santo Stefano, Venice on
the façade of the Istituto Veneto. Kleinberg installed P-SPIN at the
Pulkovo Observatory in St. Petersburg, Russia in the fall of 2007, in an
exhibition organized by Olesya Turkina, a curator from the Russian
State Museum.
In the first four digital projections, a large glass globe seesaws tensely back and forth over a central fulcrum.
The
movements are both with and against any predictable laws of physics or
nature. The globe rolls upwards, almost off the edge, catches, spins
back, spins forward faster, spirals, hesitates, continues … the shadow,
density, reflection and refraction, contort and contract, shifting
continually. The pieces speak to the fragility, and strength, of many
systems, be they economic, political, environmental, institutional,
physical or emotional. The pieces are led by deep reverberating sound
tracks.
KAIROS and BALAFRE are a collaboration with the Louvre's scientific team at the Centre de Recherche et de Restauration des Musées de France, using its high-powered microscope.
