'naturally not'
from Luminous 1996/97
The Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art:
One of three commissions made by Visual Arts UK, The Northern gallery for Contemporary Art and the City of Sunderland. Developed during 1996 with the support of a Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Award this gallery installation considered the architecture and original function of the venue in relation to gender and the body.
The Gallery had once been a large department store. In this installation the artist re-establishes the original huge plate glass windows back inside the building as projection screens, introducing elements of figurative classical ornamentation but using real women as actors.
Medium: Part 1: Glass window with sandblasted centre screen, Laser disk back projection from video.
Part 2: Sandblasted glass column. Two laser disk back projections from digitally animated still photographs.
Dimensions: Glass window: 6mts x 3mts. Centre screen: 4mts x 3mts. Glass column: 3mts x 75cms. Projection on top of column: 1mt x 75cms.
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