"Andmoreagain" : exposition collective à Liverpool
Le 2011-10-04 20:11:04

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SIMON CUNNINGHAM, IDRIS KHAN, MAIKO HATANO, MARTIN NEWTH, KATY WOODS In Andmoreagain five young UK-based artists explore the relationship between time and the photographic image. Using a range of techniques, from multiple and time exposures to the creation of composite images and sampled loops, they compress and distill time, stretch it out and reduce it to fragments. Their nominal subject matter - of familiar, everyday scenes and images - is transformed, becoming at times strange, uncanny, steeped in pathos and nostalgia. Simon Cunningham takes fragments of films and re-edits them as loops that trap us in an endless, repeated sequence. Removed from the linearity of the films' narratives, their meanings shift and they acquire a rhythmic, hypnotic quality. Idris Khan takes pre-existing groups of images and combines them digitally to create a single image. His "every... photograph taken whilst on top of the Empire State Building, 2004", for example, reduces a whole series of holiday snaps to a single, almost abstract composite. Maiko Hatano has photographed the same scene, of an almost deserted railway station, by day and by night. Her 'light-spread' pieces combine the two images and use computer-controlled back-lighting to make them fade almost imperceptibly between day and night. For his "Rush Hour - London Underground" series, Martin Newth has made time exposures, lasting a whole hour, of commuters travelling to work through a series of London Underground stations. The exposure is so long that the moving figures barely register on the film, and the escalators become smooth, ghostly conveyor belts. In "Adios, Arrivederci, Au revoir, Auf Wiedersehen" (2005), Katy Woods appropriates a set of holiday slides, found on the street in Manhattan, to make her own video slide-show. Even as it appears, each image fades from view, taking its intensely personal, long-lost story with it. Curated by Patrick Henry (Director, Open Eye Gallery) EVENT Artists talk : 12.30 - 1.30pm, Saturday 1 October 2005 Artists from Andmoreagain will join Patrick Henry, Director of Open Eye Gallery, in an informal discussion of the exhibition, with opportunities for questions and debate. © Maiko Hatano

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