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22/2/2005

Lightsilver

Beaconsfield, London

Mark Dean launches the Lightsilver sequence with three new works on all three screens, preparing the way for an exploration of the ways in which we understand the term 'landscape'. Award winning filmaker Peter Collis presents Tide shot with a 35mm slow motion camera on Boxing Day morning 2004, without knowledge of the imminent Tsunami. A young Italian, Chiara Pirito, creates a 'living' painting changing with the flow of time. Chris Cornish combines computer driven environments with the pathos of nature. susan pui san lok explores themes of nostalgia and aspiration through the reinterpretation of a high profile cultural anchor for displaced Chinese migrants. Mattias Härenstam takes a camera in a pram on a walk through Berlin to discover a post-utopian feeling of lost collectivity. João Seguro reconsiders the notion of collective memory in a real life vignette of parochial Portugal. Zineb Sedira clandestinely films the Port of Algiers. Semiconductor present fictional documentaries, created through many processes of digital animation, of our physical world in flux: evolution driven by information technology.

Lightsilver explores the physical, conceptual and historical impact of the landscape tradition on the ideas of contemporary artists. An evolving montage of projections links the cinematic tradition of vista-making with the metaphoric potential of an age-old genre ­ the appearance of that portion of land which the eye can view at once. Territory that has been conventionally explored through other mediums is here broadly extended to the moving image as a result of the digital revolution.

Nine diverse artists - Algerian, British, Chinese, Italian, Norwegian, and Portuguese - rotate new commissions across three spaces: each fresh work entering the sequence on one screen before proceeding to the next. The impact of every piece shifts with the new environment, as it forms a triptych of montaged space with other art-works within a rotating exhibition structure of eleven weeks.

1st preview Wednesday 23 February 6-9pm
*Previews on consecutive Wednesdays until 8 May

Mark Dean 23 February - 13 March
Peter Collis 2 March* - 20 March
Chiara Pirito 9 March* - 27 March
Chris Cornish 16 March* - 3 April
susan pui san lok 23 March* - 10 April
Mattias Härenstam 30 March* - 17 April
João Seguro 6 April* - 24 April
Zineb Sedira 13 April* - 1 May
Semiconductor 20 April*/ 27 April*/ 4 May* - 8 May

For further information, images and artists' CV please call Julie Clark on 020 7582 6465.

Beaconsfield
22 Newport Street
London

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