Saw the exhibition Film in Space today. Another excellent show at Camden Arts Centre. This time about the moving image, or more specifically
about exporing the tactile and experimental possibilities of analogue
film. Curated by artist/film maker Guy
Sherwin, the show draws from 'expanded cinema' work made in the
70s and recent work, some of which also includes digital media.
There is a lot to digest and it is not possible to do it at one
sitting as some of the exhibits will have changed three times by the
time the show finishes at the end of February.
Was interesting to see work by
artists like Annabel
Nicolson, steeped in the hand-made innovative performance aspects
of experimental film from the 70s, rubbing shoulders with current
work by artists like Simon Payne who's site specific piece projected
exactly proportioned coloured light onto the window panes in a window
alcove.
My favourite room (gallery 3) showed
modern films, concerned with light, colour, shape and movement,
including a new work by Guy Sherwin: a small painting of simple
rectangular shapes that continuously change when coloured light is
projected on to the canvas, Emma
Hart's piece for which light is projected through an automatic
venetian blind creating shadows and reflections on the adjacent wall
and Simon Payne's work,
mentioned above and shown below.
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