fiona williams: 2017

Untitled, 2017, pen and pencil on paper, 148 x 210 mm

Untitled, 2017, pen and pencil on paper, 148 x 210 mm

If the moon moves water, the sun moves shadows

5-20 October, 2017

Seventh Gallery

Fitzroy, Naarm Melbourne

https://seventhgallery.org/

If the moon moves water, the sun moves shadows is a new body of work exploring the concept of passive vitalism through the differing material demands of painting and the moving image.

Oil on aluminium, dimensions and light variable; digital video 15:07 loop.

Photographed by Christian Capurro, 13 October, 2017.

The exhibition involved a single shot video and a series of paintings; both works were installed together as a single work. The video utilised the fixed shot and duration, and the series of paintings worked with the interrupting frame and play of light in real time.

Video notes: a Polaroid photograph was filmed at the site where it was shot, for the time that the image took to develop. This version of this work (ongoing since 2004) places an emphasis on duration through the ambiguity of the when the recorded moment ends, and through interruptions to the ‘image’. The paintings in this exhibition follow a similar logic, but through their different registration of time and luminosity shift the focus to a complex present-ness.

This work was developed while a Master of Fine Art candidate at Monash University with the support of the RTP.

The abstract for the exegetical document that accompanied this work can be found here.

+ Photographed in evening light