Flicker
Exhibition at Artspace
Sydney artist Brent Grayburn’s new exhibition ‘Flicker’ is an experience that takes as a point of reference Joseph Conrad’s book ‘Heart of Darkness’, and its principle of the Panopticon, a prison building designed to allow prisoners to be observed without the viewer being seen.
Surrounded by four screens of imagery on opposing walls, those viewing ‘Flicker’ will become isolated within the centre of the space. Swamps, rivers and a bleaker world carry two minds toward each other within a declining environment where even representation has its doubts; a deluded place with a tinnie and an outboard.
The 4 surrounding screens will run out 23 minutes of highly produced imagery, that follow Conrad’s epic journey upriver into the unknown.
‘Flicker’ is a journey away from the commonly understood rules of video space into a more haphazard location, where chunks of footage are removed until there is just black, no sky and often no landscape, just representations. Two characters, M + K, drift in a cut up narrative that is confused and out of balance, with images colliding, occasionally synching, observing. Everything is watching. Nothing is real. Flicker is a softer journey into a darker place.
WHERE: ARTSPACE, 43–51 Cowper Wharf Road, Woolloomooloo NSW 2011
WHEN: 26th October - 17th November 2007
www.artspace.org.au
