For instance,
in Chelsea Lehnmann's painting, «Sondage» (2015), there is very little doubt, that the dark hazy
background is not a visual
trick, rather an effort to challenge the instant gratification and gimmicks of post art (it has been previously mentioned, Martin Creed's Turner prize winning
work, an empty room
in which a light is turned on and off is a prime example).
Loose and disjointed narratives involving the histories and materiality of painting are found
in several videos: Ragnheiour Gestsdottir's video «As If We Existed,» portrays the fictitious melodrama of a figurative painter
working in Venice; Tameka Norris's «Purple Painting» incorporates makeup and food
in a provocative video that, with few words, touches on issues surrounding race, gender and the pressures of an art historical canon;
in Alex Hubbard's video «Hit Wave II,» a magician gives instructions for
tricks, but the sounds and activities surrounding him allude to action painting with Hubbard
in the
background wearing a paint suit and creating gestural marks with spray paint.