The Wait, 2014. Installation View, Moving Pictures/Expanding Space, Care/of, Milan, Italy.
The Wait, 2014
Single Channel, Site-Specific SD Video. 2mins12sec loop. Silent.
The Wait is a site specific video artwork that depicts the feet and ankles of a woman standing in the gallery. The feet were approximately life size. The volume of the CRT television, in combination with the stillness of the performer, turned the body into an object and evoked the aesthetic of endurance performance. The stillness of the video was interrupted when a cigarette butt drops to the floor and the woman stamps it out with her foot. This simple gesture imbues the entire scene with a purpose that evokes cinematic narrative.
This video utilises aesthetic drawn from art and cinema to create different types of presence within the gallery. Each type of presence seems to contradict the other, making the idea of presence a shifting and inconclusive proposition within the work.
The Wait was included as part of the curated exhibition Moving/Pictures/Expanding Space at Care/of, Milan, Italy.
Text:
Moving Images/Expanding Space Room Sheet. pdf here.
Selected Press:
Naima Morelli, "Melbourne Art Scene Inspires Italian Spaces" Australia Unlimited, 30 April, 2014. pdf version here.
"10 Things to do in Milan's Art World this Week", The ATP Diary, 18 February, 2014. online here.
The Wait, 2014. Installation View, Moving Pictures/Expanding Space, Care/of, Milan, Italy.
The Wait, 2014. Site Specific SD Video.