Nuomena Neomena / 2009

I developed work from photographs taken whilst on a short residency at Gropiusstadt, a modernist high-rise designed by Walter Gropius on the edge of south west Berlin. I am fascinated in the possibility of photography to bridge times and places and its ability to freeze time and record and absorb light. I took many long exposure analogue photographs of myself moving in darkness and from the resultant images made 2 neon pieces informed from the photographic condensations and residues of my actions. The neon pieces were called 'this is not a reflection 1 and 11'. One piece was activated by the recorded sound of a video piece where the image was hidden in a large burnt wooden sculpture in the form of a wedge. The title of the show is a play on a word (nuoumenon) used by Immanuel Kant broadly meaning an objective reality beyond our own consciousness can never be accessed.

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