LUCAS DAVIDSON
’FRAME OF MIND’
1 MARCH – 1 APRIL, 2017
Frame of Mind, 2017, Installation shot. Photography by Document Photography.
ID: Two large metallic, mirror-like structures hang from the ceiling of the gallery. In front of them, two projectors on stands shine white light onto the mirrors, which is reflected back onto the bare walls of the gallery in a patter of light. Another projector points out of frame in the image.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Frame of Mind was a site-specific video installation that used light, mirror and sound to form a complex spatial reconfiguration of the screen. The 16:9 format of the screen was reduced to a white moving image that projected through the gallery space onto a series of suspended mirrors. The mirrors responded to the slightest movements in the gallery, reflecting back abstract light forms that circumnavigated the walls, bleeding onto the floor, ceiling and internal space of the gallery making every surface including the viewers body a screen.
Frame of Mind , 2017, Installation shot. Photography by Document Photography.
ID: The gallery is filled with large metallic, mirror-like structures that hang from the ceiling. They reflect light which is cast by projectors that are placed around the space, and cause the mirrors to reflect patterns of white light onto the bare walls of the gallery.
My intention for this work was to present a moving image that is devoid of linear and narrative associations. By reducing the moving image to white light and incorporating moving mirror, the 16:9 format of the screen doubles and fragments to create a multidimensional ever-changing image. This multiplying and overlapping of content to a point of abstraction aims to place emphasis on the viewers physicality and presence. By reversing the authoritative value structure of the screen, I am attempting to allow for an open-ended dialogue to occur where the viewer’s frame of mind becomes the narrator and maker of the work.
Frame of Mind, 2017, Installation shot. Photography by Document Photography.
ID: One mirror hangs in a corner, in front of a large projection of white light. This light reflects onto the wall in front of it, making a pattern of white light. The shadow from the mirror is cast onto the projection behind it.
This work belongs to a group of installations that I have been developing over the past few years that investigate the dematerialization of the art object and more specifically the moving image. By using time and the moving image as spatial material, by challenging the way we engage with our surroundings and by renegotiating aspects of how subjectivity is defined, these works aim to raise questions about authorship, intentionality and what it means to live in a physical and digital environment at the same time.
Lucas Davidson, 2017
Lucas Davidson is represented by Dominik Mersch Gallery.
Frame of Mind, 2017, Installation shot. Photography by Document Photography.
ID: The gallery is filled with large metallic, mirror-like structures that hang from the ceiling. They reflect light which is cast by projectors that are placed around the space, and cause the mirrors to reflect patterns of white light onto the bare walls of the gallery.
Frame of Mind, 2017, Installation shot. Photography by Document Photography.
ID: One mirror hangs in a corner, in front of a large projection of white light. This light reflects onto the wall in front of it, making a pattern of white light. The shadow from the mirror is cast onto the projection behind it.