Not exact matches
In analysing the dynamics of (mis) perception that allow sequences of
images to be viewed as comic
narratives — asking, in effect, just who or what we think we're laughing at — the articles assembled here hopefully shed some light on the contested ground
where ethics and aesthetics meet.
Auteurist critics who mined these strata have rejected Zinnemann because his is a literal - minded cinema of the spectator,
where the
images and
narrative are displayed with craft and artistry, but which do not ask the viewer to participate in completing the equation of form and content.
Tellingly, Shame starts to feel banal as McQueen explains who his characters are and
where they come from; in
narrative filmmaking, one can present decontextualized
images for only so long.
Weaving Cooper's life into a poetic
narrative about humanity's history and future, Aitken's words become a leitmotif of a gradual deconstruction of
images and sounds into a dystopian landscape
where nature and technology exist.
Assembling in Marfa will be a faction of contemporary artists who are peeling the page one frame - at - a-time in an inquiry into the visual dimension of language, ranging from David Gatten's reflection on the role of documents and Michael Tracy's secret, worldly recitations to Julia Meltzer and David Thorne's digital archives
where images become a fault - line between world views and hidden
narratives.
The artist aims to capture content, specifically in search of «giving
narrative life to objects, to alter their course, utility, and to amplify their charm; inscribing meanings and stories to these same objects, removing their varnish so as to not be perceived as «the [immutable] originals»; provoking collisions between
images and assembling vernacular history with fantasies; fomenting a contemporary prosopopoeia,
where a simple leather cushion, a tennis racket, or a lid of a tin biscuit box bare faces and voices.»
Recently his
narrative has taken him down still other new avenues: Large canvases covered with copper
where he has cut into the material to create the
image.
MY EXHIBITIONS are non-linear
narratives,
where the juxtaposition of each
image together tells a specific story, like Scott McCloud's definition of comics in his great book Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (1994).
Referencing 17th century Dutch still life painting and Asian animation genres, the artist creates video
images that are caught between action and non-action,
where narrative is both imminent and suspended.
Each
image created by Chinese illustrator Jin Xingye seems suggest a moment from an untold story,
where people and creatures appear to share surreal, tender moments from within a larger
narrative.
Molly Beauchemin notes: «If Instagram is a space
where every photo tells a story, even subversive
images become part of the
narrative.»
The exhibition includes the following films: Closeup Gallery (2003), in which a magician and his assistant engage in a strange game
where cards dance, as if equivalent with inner worlds; Soft Materials (2004)
where intimate relationships between man and machine are nurtured in an artificial intelligence laboratory; Harpstrings and Lava (2007) a dark
narrative that animates dream
images through clashing textures and structures; and the new film Sensorium Tests (2012), which revolves around a recently recognised neurological condition called «mirror - touch synaesthesia».
The first two books (furlong: blue evening and furlong: Adriana dreaming)
where essentially a small catalogue of
images that formed a loose
narrative.
Given the current social context, in which everyone constantly sees and shares
images of themselves on different networks, Carvalhosa's installation triggers a strange feeling within the viewer, who instantly pauses and enters something of a «non-place,»
where the lack of
narrative can be disconcerting.
This selection of drawings and prints traces a range of subjects, including: «Ideas Generation»,
where artists use the immediacy of drawing as a means to prepare and refine a concept; «Systems, Architectonics and Abstraction», in which predetermined rules, structures and methods govern the form of the
image; «Expressions of Anatomy»,
where intimate portrayals of the figure assume a central position; «Graphic
Narratives / Surreal Legacies», featuring imagery from the fantastically bizarre to the comically illustrative; and «Historia», which examines how drawing has been used to question the role of photography in the mediation and construction of historical memory.
The artist has referred the «limitations of a photograph in terms of
narrative capacity to have an
image that is frozen in time, (
where) there's no before or after» and has turned that restriction into a unique strength.
Dymoke's instinctive and material - oriented process of creation leads the viewer onto a mental journey
where metaphors and other improvised
narratives smoothly intertwine to open a new logic while reinvestigating the symptomatic
image.
In her sculptures and wall works, Kathryn Andrews appropriates
images from popular culture, often from American movies, television, and stock photography archives; she then alters and recontextualizes them into three - dimensional configurations to create new
narratives where viewers are invited to rethink the
images» content in relation to their own bodies.
From her early staged
images with vaguely intimated story lines to her recent, structuralist - influenced films, Sharon Lockhart's work has consistently staked out an ambiguous territory between the photographic and the cinematic - a location
where the flow of
narrative and the stasis of repetition intersect.