Bill Viola, The Raft, May 2004. Video/sound installation. Photos: Kira Perov. Courtesy Bill Viola Studio, James Cohan Gallery, New York and American Federation of Arts.
The Raft depicts, at life-sized scale, a group of ordinary people casually standing together. Suddenly, they are struck by strong blasts of water that overtake them, and, just as unexpectedly, recede.
By Chadd Scott
