21 March - 27 March 2011

Open 12-6pm

 

Preview Monday 21 March 6-9pm

 

The 25-minute, multi-screen video projection is a record of a 500-mile journey - part art project, part expedition, (part fundraising for charity). The piece depicts notions of travel, assorted landscapes, locations & events surrounding a trip, which began with a fixation on a word, leading to a pilgrimage of sorts.

The work combines slow-moving shots of scenic views - sparse intervals and pensive scenes, accounts of absence meeting an assemblage of communal celebration & collective gatherings.

The final destination of the journey was a town named Boom - by coincidence or fortune, Boom was celebrating 700 years of its history that year, with the church holding a devotion to ‘Maria’ event and a procession through the streets.

This is a meditation on sights seen whilst on an excursion to a place visited, the motivations to do so, not immediately apparent or openly stated.

A sense of nostalgia and documenting a kind of history, exist within the artists work and recent films encompass questioning ideas of performance & practice, the consequences of a cause & effect proposition, which in relation to this latest film – Boom, is revealed with a similarly transitory & ephemeral tone. An example of this, are the scenes consisting of patterns & rhythms of light – abstract, yet tangible…

The project; incorporates the journey itself, the film on display at the Great Central & a limited edition book designed by the artist – the opening night of the exhibition also being the launch night for the books release.

The book will be available to purchase throughout the exhibition, featuring the artist’s photographs, essays & contributions from associates, providing a context to the project and examining the nature of ‘Boom’.