James Irwin
dal 29/5/2013 al 21/6/2013
Segnalato da
29/5/2013
James Irwin
Space In Between, London
Binary Translations (Featuring France Languerand). A body of work that seeks to examine the language and mechanisms, which enable us to translate the world around us into digital forms and contexts.
James Irwin
Binary Translations
(Featuring France Languerand)
Space In Between is delighted to present Binary Translations – an exhibition of new work
by James Irwin and his second solo show with the gallery.
Irwin’s recent work includes a series of images based on the idea of decoding the RGB
colour spectrum. Informed by an ongoing investigation into the space between physical
and digital realities, the artist has created a body of work that seeks to examine the
language and mechanisms, which enable us to translate the world around us into digital
forms and contexts.
Having written a computer programme to decode digital colour – deconstructing it as a
means to understanding its mechanism – Irwin created a series of coded prints. An
Internet image search for “16777216” - the total number of unique RGB colours - led to
the discovery that French artist France Languerand had already achieved a startlingly
similar outcome. Given that the each of these images are determined by an algorithm,
designed to represent the entire colour spectrum, the chance of two being identical was 1
in 16,777,216. Irwin contacted Languerand and invited her to contribute her version of
the works to the show and together these form the basis of, and the inspiration for, Binary
Translations.
Whilst the artists’ reasons for the same investigation were different – made in different
places, and separated by several years – they represent the possibility for a digitally
connected state, offering a metaphor for ideas shared within an intangible and digital
‘space’. A topology of sorts, this coincidence ignores measurements of distance and angle.
In French, “motif” means motive, cause but also pattern, which is fitting given that both
artists arrived at the same point of enquiry from two entirely different perspectives, both
achieving the same result.
The prints will be shown alongside a sculpture by Irwin, which will scan and translate the
pixelated colours of the digital images into light, projected into a translucent cone. The
cone and its accompanying mirror image exist as a kind of topological translation
between physical and other imagined realities.
Irwin is interested in the possibility of a kind of programmed sense of objectivity, which
brings into focus questions surrounding the idea of authorship. Given Languerand’s
accidental involvement Binary Translations quietly draws its audience in to the sense of the
inevitable, an abstracted digital togetherness of sorts.
Private View 30/05/13, 6-9pm
Space In Between
Unit 26 Regent Studios - 8 Andrews Road - London E8 4QN
Gallery open Fridays & Saturdays 12-6pm, or by appointment
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