vivid

Today it was the opening for a new show at vivid
On show was the work of 3 artists: Ian Upton, Ravi Deepres and Ana Rutter
Very interesting work but somehow strangely arranged into the given space. It feels more like 3 individual shows put together in the same space.
The work of Ana Rutter feels very close to what I'm exploring now. There is a series of 5 back projections on small screens that are perfectly attached (like the slide on a slide mount) on a fake wall.
The construction is absolutely perfect, the screen feel like feather-thin light boxes that project videos.
Anna's work seams to 'play' with our understanding of the still and the moving image.
Anna's videos are 5 peaceful, panoramic, pictorial landscapes in which nothing happens (birds fly through and the light changes slightly),
the only way we realize that this piece is contemporary is by the medium, aesthetically I would say that it is something Turner might had done if he had lived today,
Although as photographs they wouldn't have moved me, as videos somehow they become small meditations about time, they make me wonder about nature, and the way pure landscapes are of the last few sights that we share as common with the people that lived before us
It is also clever and nice that she has a bench across here work where you can seat and stare on 'the landscape'