St. Helena Olive Tree, Extinct 1884-1977, 2003 © SOFT TURNS, 2010.
An Artist/Curator Talk: MOVEMENT NEVER LIES
An installation of video works by SOFT TURNS
Saturday, August 17, 2013, 2 – 4 p.m.
O’BORN CONTEMPORARY
131 Ossington Avenue
Movement does, in fact, lie.
Shadows indicate displacement where there is none and time can be visually manipulated to produce fictitious motion that hovers just above the threshold of perception. In a more topographic sense, the migration of flora and fauna over history’s span is often adopted as a veritable record of biology’s development, but is ultimately misleading. Family histories are inflated with anecdotal travelogia and indigenous plant species turn up in the least suspected places. The intercessor between place and time is movement. And yet…though the two constants (or variables, rather?) of place and time are nearly always associated with each other, they really are separate entities. Changing the place your body is located does not necessarily mean altering the spectrum of time in which you exist. Analogously, spasms in time’s continuum, or the dissolution of one’s understanding of how time is passing, need not necessarily indicate that movement in space has occurred.
Temporary states of existence and physical volume–both chronological and spatial–inform Soft Turns’ stop motion animations. In conversation, the four selected videos (“A Passage“, 2010; “St. Helena Olive Tree, Extinct 1884-1977, 2003-2010; “Behind the High Grass“, 2011; “Just Add Water“, 2007), presented here as Movement Never Lies construe transitory states of being as a regard on movement and its chameleon-like nature.
Soft Turns (Sarah Jane Gorlitz and Wojciech Olejnik) have been collaborating on stop-motion and video installation since 2006.
Installation continues through August 21st, 2013. Gallery hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 11 – 6 p.m.