December 2011
10 posts
WatchArchive 1:
Assembled from multiple source films Screen Tests unfolds as series of Warhol-like screen tests.
Commissioned as part of the British Art Show Six in 2006, a collaboration with artists Marysia Lewandowska, Neil Cummings, Eileen Simpson and Ben White to explore public moving image archives in each city of the exhibition’s tour. Screen Test is edited from material from the...
The Raft of the Medusa- Gericault
This painting possess an epic horror that depicts many of the themes of French colonialism, and of the 20th century. Géricault’s rutting sea, the water-logged bodies and desperate grimaces illustrate - with an arresting power - the wreckage of the 1816 voyage of the Medusé
The Medusé was sailing from Rochefort in France for Saint-Louis in Senegal to regain power over the region from...
