Victoria Gardens, 22nd October 2005, installed at Leeds Met Gallery, Leeds, UK, 2006
(re)collect
This
exhibition (re)collect,
Leeds Met
Gallery from
January to February 2006, brought together previous work
and two new commissions in a stunning collection by
Jonathan
Shaw.
The first commission, Victoria
Gardens saw
Shaw take his methods one step further, by observing and
selecting subjects over a period of time, then
choreographing and photographing them together, condensing
the passage of days into a single constructed image.
Standing an impressive 2 meters high by 9 meters long, the
resulting image corresponds directly to the scale of the
track that the camera ran on. In the second
commission, Corn
Xchange,
Shaw explores our understanding of spectatorship and the
self image. A video camera was mounted on a pedestal and
installed in the Corn Exchange, Leeds, with shoppers
captured as they passed and interacted with the camera,
creating a sense of watching and being watched. For the
exhibition, several hours of footage are edited down into a
15 minute interactive projection, which the viewer is able
to scroll through at will. Since control over the digital
projection lies with the spectator, the piece allows them
to be both casual observer, director and voyeur,
determining which aspects of the projection are played,
paused and bypassed.
Exploring the contrasting landscapes of claustrophobic and
contemplatative environments, produced in both natural and
artificial light, Crash 7 combines, moments which expand
the boundaries representing the human body in time, space
and motion. Reproduced directly onto plexi-glass and placed
on the gallery windows, the spectator will be able to view
the piece from either inside or out. Earlier works on show
include New Street and the expansive Gallery 13.
(re)collect is curated by Leeds Met
Gallery,
featuring two new works commissioned by Pavilion.
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