Tristan’s Ascension (The Sound of a Mountain Under a Waterfall)
by Bill Viola
Signal Festival 2025 featured “Tristan’s Ascension (The Sound of a Mountain Under a Waterfall)”, a digital art by Bill Viola in Prague. Explore 1 other work by Bill Viola below.
The monumental video installation Tristan’s Ascension , presented in the Church of St. Salvator at the Convent of St. Agnes, is a symbolic vision of the soul in the space beyond death . A man’s body lies on a stone slab in an empty concrete room. Small drops of water rise from the ground and ascend into the universe.
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