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Harriet Stockman - Intercede, 2006


21st Sept to 7th Oct 2006
Show with Kirsten Dryburgh at rm103

I have been interested in how media imagery constructs who we are as a society. In the past I have looked at the specifics of framing, looping and what has been called the continuous now, (where the flood of viewed information is discarded without considered digestion and space is made for the current viewing).

rm 103 in Achilles House is an unusual gallery space. It contains remnants of its previous history of use. The soft white walls of the office space have been seconded to suggest the expected sterile walls of the white cube. However it was voted to keep the carpet rather than strip and polish the floors as a device to supply comfort for the viewers. An assemblage of fragments are left that suggest office, gallery and through the acknowledgement of comfort a space for reception or waiting.

This work is a technological and aesthetic response to the past uses of the space. The three in one copier, scanner, printer belonging in both the office and home captures frames from the television approximately every two minutes and prints them onto standard office paper. Reminiscent of the ‘continuous now’ it then discards the images once printed onto the floor to make room for the arrival of the next information bite, an expanding pile of informational detritus.

An intimacy between the copier glass and the television screen is established that is excluding of the viewer. It is a narcissistic relationship where the glass reflects back onto the television screen the image of itself in a continuous loop. Light and reflections off the two surfaces leak from around the edges and almost as a by-product the copier expels mutated images onto the floor, a copy of a copy.

 

 

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