Abinadi Meza:
LIGHTFALL
video artwork
Lightfall, Abinadi Meza’s 16mm film transferred to HD video, depicts pulsing solar forms dissolving into delicate architectures of retinal veins, emphasizing texture and the physicality of light and color. This abstract, colorful, luminous film exists in a space between the vast and the intimate, where blood-like droplets become celestial bodies and fractures in the film emit light like distant stars. Without the mediation of a camera, the film collapses the distance between observer and observed, macro and micro. The soundtrack is composed of electromagnetic recordings of lightning particles moving through Earth's ionosphere. These atmospheric discharges manifest as ethereal frequencies, creating translucent layers of sound that deepen the film's chromatic energy.
Bio
Abinadi Meza is an Austin-based artist whose practice spans experimental film, sound, performance, and installation. With a background in both art and architecture, Meza explores the intersections of sensory experience, space, and time, engaging audiences through immersive and conceptual approaches. His work has been exhibited internationally across museums, galleries, public spaces, and festivals, including Anthology Film Archives (New York), Bogotá Experimental Film Festival, Brooklyn Film Festival, Contemporary Arts Museum (Houston), Cineteca Nacional de México (Mexico City), Crossroads Festival (San Francisco), Festival ECRÃ (Rio de Janeiro), Irish Museum of Modern Art (Dublin), Light Matter (Buenos Aires), Lisbon Architecture Triennale, MAXXI (Rome), and Walker Art Center (Minneapolis).