Passage is a combined video/audio/olfactory installation, where the visitor walks through a darkened space or tunnel - noticing odours on the way, such as fire/ashes, sweat (fear), and pine trees - towards a video projection at the end of the passage. The sound of a person whistling innocently contrasts with the dark pines and dramatic shadows in the video.

 

Helga Griffiths completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Rutgers University, N.J and graduated in 1994 from the Kunstakademie Stuttgart and the Hochschule f¸r Gestaltung Karlsruhe. She won numerous awards, most recently the first prize at the "Lichtrouten Festival" L¸denscheid and a NEA Grant for an Artist in Residence-Project in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Recent exhibitions took place at the 8 Havana Biennial, Cuba, Galerie Huebner, Frankfurt, the Escuela de Artes Plasticas, San Juan, Puerto Rico, the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France and the Museum of Installation, London.