Untitled (Somewhere Between the Not Yet and the No Longer)
Installation, Portrait, Video installation, 1800x250cm
6 Channel Video Installation
Untitled is a projected sculptural work which utilizes fragments from the existing film footage of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's 1964 film, A Matter Of Life and Death. Projected onto six large freestanding screens, is an extract depicting the lead character on the staircase between two worlds. The two dimensional boundaries of the film screen are transformed into a three dimensional space which sees further manipulation of the projected images through their enlargement, constant repetition and by adjustments in perspective created by the reversal of alternate projections.
The theatrical experience becomes anti theatrical with the viewer led away from any temptation of narrative into an ever-renewing present. Joining the figure in his Sisyphean trap, the viewer becomes increasingly aware of their own body in the enclosed space; where ascent and descent merge together to create a confused and never-ending staircase, ultimately leading nowhere. Created, is a state in which time must be experienced as presence and where the boundaries separating polarities (life and death, reality and fiction, the known and the unknown) are questioned as these opposing states find their co existence.
Untitled is a projected sculptural work which utilizes fragments from the existing film footage of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's 1964 film, A Matter Of Life and Death. Projected onto six large freestanding screens, is an extract depicting the lead character on the staircase between two worlds. The two dimensional boundaries of the film screen are transformed into a three dimensional space which sees further manipulation of the projected images through their enlargement, constant repetition and by adjustments in perspective created by the reversal of alternate projections.
The theatrical experience becomes anti theatrical with the viewer led away from any temptation of narrative into an ever-renewing present. Joining the figure in his Sisyphean trap, the viewer becomes increasingly aware of their own body in the enclosed space; where ascent and descent merge together to create a confused and never-ending staircase, ultimately leading nowhere. Created, is a state in which time must be experienced as presence and where the boundaries separating polarities (life and death, reality and fiction, the known and the unknown) are questioned as these opposing states find their co existence.
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