David Claerbout Oil workers (from the Shell company of Nigeria) returning home from work, caught in torrential rain, 2013
Single channel video projection, HD animation, colour, silent
Duration: infinite
Oil Workers (from the Shell company of Nigeria) returning home from work, caught in torrential rain is a video work meticulously reconstructed from a small photograph found on the Internet of workers taking shelter from monsoon rains under a bridge. The image appears straightforward until one notices that the viewpoint is slowly rotating around the men in three-dimensional space, whilst the picture remains still.
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