New Bright, August 2nd 2018- August 3rd 2018
A mechanical view scans a space, trying to locate itself within a room. The frame is mostly enveloped in darkness, punctuated by sudden floods of bright white light that invert the field of vision. Two luminous points oscillate against a plastered surface, tracing fleeting paths along reflective lines that form a pathway, drawing light into the image. These reflective seams seem to define the room’s boundaries, but their edges waver and bend as the camera drifts, loops, and reorients itself in motion. Images falter, blur, and fragment. Pixelation and data loss accumulate, as if the apparatus itself is struggling to perceive, to transmit. Orientation slips; interior and exterior, presence and absence, turn in and out on themselves.
Attributed to Georgian Badal