COVERT
CAROLYN MCKAY
12 – 30 SEPTEMBER 2012
OPENING PREVIEW
FRIDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 6-8PM
galleryeight is pleased to exhibit
a solo show of recent work by Carolyn McKay.
Covert presents a suite of
four HD videos created by McKay while travelling around Japan last year. Filmed
covertly from behind glass, windows of trains and hotels afforded her the
opportunity to be a watchful eye observing the unsuspecting, revealing
unconnected episodes of strangers’ lives. What she found particularly appealing
about this form of surreptitious spectatorship was that the images revealed
people unposed, introspective and natural. However,
she sensed that she was secretly thieving a portion of someone’s daily life for
her own artistic purposes. The videos appropriate and fix private moments that would
normally have remained ephemeral, compelling these strangers, through DVD
looping, to repeat their experiences indefinitely. On the other hand, these
stolen episodes have gained a poetic resonance that may have otherwise passed
unnoticed.
Thank you to Carrie Miller and The Art Life for a review:
http://theartlife.com.au/?p=7000
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