Out of Sight
Out of Sight is a video piece for two monitors, each monitor is a
sequence of looped images. One screen depicts a man sitting apparently
aimlessly in a room, in a state of waiting, seemingly unaware of what might be
going on around him.
The video intermittently cuts to small groups of objects, a glass of water, a
fly on the window ledge, a pack of crisps... Through a background window large
amounts of smoke are billowing upwards. On the second screen we see a
continuously rotating fan, a red warning light flashes on and off. Through the
window we see large plumes of smoke and the fleeting image of an aircraft.
There is the idea of delay, something about to happen but not as yet happening,
a sense of unfulfilled expectation and of immanence. There is an engagement
with time but time as it were held back, slowed down, its linearity disrupted,
space and time are simultaneously suspended and deferred.
There is a reference to contemporary events, the man's passive waiting
suggests he is caught in the moment before a disaster, an apocalyptic presence
pervades.
Exhibition History:
2004 - Whitstable Biennale. Herne Bay Museum and Gallery, Herne Bay
2004 - Subject to Endless Gossip. Sparwasser HQ, Berlin
2004 - When in Rome ll (Homeland). Spacex Gallery, Habitat, Exeter
2002 - Wait for Me. The London Institute Gallery Millbank, London
