American video artist who is the most prominent practitioner of video art — whose work (The Nantes Triptych, Stations, The Crossing) uses water, fire, and the body to explore birth, death, and spiritual transformation — drawing on Christian mysticism, Zen Buddhism, and Jungian themes.
Creates the most sustained meditation on death and rebirth in contemporary art — Viola's video installations use extreme slow motion and elemental imagery to create the experience of liminal states — making video art the medium for contemporary sacred experience.
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