Light Seeking Transparency

Two Screen Video projection commissioned by Art Lab, Imperial College London.exhibited at Ffotogallery as part of solo exhibition "Hide" 2003

"Light Seeking Transparency" was constructed from 3 photographic slides, a projector, some model trees and a turntable. The work explores the possibility of splitting a single image into two scenarios. The projected images of a fox, a hare and an owl are photographed from taxidermy specimens.
Focussing the video camera on the single eye of the projector, and the glass eye of the animal, the viewer is re-situated to be able to see both the source of the image and the image within the same visual field.. Where one eye (the projector) blinds, the other (glass eye) is reanimated, deconstructing the projected image and re-vivicating the dead animal. Nature and technology look each other in the eye, meeting only in the double- eyed gaze of the viewer.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Helen Sear
• Ffotogallery
• Video projection
• art
• ArtLab
• Light Seeking Transparency