Out of Body
dal 24/1/2008 al 21/3/2008
Segnalato da
24/1/2008
Out of Body
Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool
An exhibition of photographs and moving image works that explore, manipulate and reflect upon the human body. The show looks at the relationship between biological and photographic time, contrasting the continuous cycles of human life with the still photographic instant.
Out of Body is an exhibition of photographs and moving image works that explore, manipulate and reflect upon the human body. The exhibition looks at the relationship between biological and photographic time, contrasting the continuous cycles of human life with the still photographic instant.
Rejecting the rules of traditional portraiture, the works in Out of Body do not attempt to capture the human body in a stable visual form. Instead, they express the resistance of our bodies to being coded or transcribed in any way, and the limitations of the technologies through which we attempt to do so.
During a trip to Tasmania, Yannick Demmerle (France) made long-exposure photographs of himself in gloomy, TV-lit motel rooms. He now presents these images in negative, giving them a lingering, spectral feeling. Namiko Kitaura (Japan) takes us on another journey of self-exploration. She creates a digital animation of herself suspended in a 'healing pool', in which tiny fish remove the dead skin from her body. The stillness of this piece contrasts with the frantic movement of Douglas Gordon's (UK) video in which isolated close-ups of body parts take on a life of their own.
Combining photography and sculpture, Naia del Castillo (Spain) focuses on the trapped body and its struggle for release, while Valie Export (Austria) tracks the image of the female body as it is transmitted, transferred and fragmented by various media.
Open Eye Gallery
28-32 Wood Street - Liverpool
Opening times Tuesday - Saturday: 10.30am - 5.30pm. Closed Sunday - Monday
Free admission