‘The image that appears once and for all in the instant of its alienation’
The title of the work is a quote from Georgio Agamben provided as an artistic ‘exchange’ with Greek artist Maria Demas. The piece appears at first as a framed and mounted pencil line drawing. On closer inspection it is a framed screen showing a looped animated drawing of an old man as he lies staring into space.
When the screen is touched it triggers a non-linear stream of images; moving and still, a mixture of interiors and landscapes that are only visible whilst the hand is in contact with the screen. The work is concerned with themes related to dissociated and dislocated memory. As with memory the images cannot be stopped or contained and when human touch is lost the image returns to the old man staring into space.
Exhibited at: EXCHANGE, Stour Space, London, 2018
