This
exhibition presents artists whose work contemplates the intersection
of motion and content, and movement and intent, by examining the
architecture of the motion picture. Implicit in their work is a
contemplation of the still frame and the echo of Eadweard Muybridge’s
ground breaking work of the 1870's, which brought forth the ability to both
reduce movement to a series of sequential frames and at the same time led to
the ability to represent motion through the continuous projection of film.
Each
of the artists in f|r|a|m|e create motion studies with a
similar obsession as Muybridge, who in his pursuit to record physical
movement by animals and humans alike, photographed gestures ranging from the
subtle to grand. The revolutionary technological advancements brought on by
Muybridge’s explorations and that of his peers, directly changed how we
have come to understand and experience time and movement.
Yet
the artists in f|r|a|m|e go beyond homage or reference. Operating in
reverse of Muybridge's development of bringing the still frame towards the
motion picture, 100 years after his death, they reclaim the motion picture
as a series of still frames. Their efforts create a forum in which the
viewer can consider technology’s impact on our experience of time and
movement through the subjectification of individuality, athleticism,
history, culture, and the human body within the still moving frame.
-Ariel
Shanberg, june 2004
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