EVAN JAMES
“LITTORAL ZONE”
MONITORS, WENTWORTH LEVEL 1 (2024)
Evan James, Littoral Zone 1, 2024, still from two-channel video installation, 56:24. Image courtesy of the artist.
ARTIST STATEMENT
A littoral zone is the boundary between continents and the ocean, or land and a body of water.
The imagery of Littoral Zone toes a shore between the landmass of analogue reality and a rising ocean of synthetic imitation.
Observing the qualities of light, reflection and colour found in Australia’s southeast shorelines, captured and simulated vignettes search for the underlying pattern and forces behind the ocean’s optical phenomena.
A procedural system arranges and juxtaposes images from the artist’s archive captured at sites including La Perouse in Botany Bay and the tidal rock pools of Port Macquarie. Digital studies follow the rhythms and colour palettes established in these captured impressions.
The conversation between digital and natural subject matters counterposes an imperilled ecosystem's material existence with its simulated afterimage.
Evan James, Littoral Zone 2, 2024, still from two-channel video installation, 56:38. Image courtesy of the artist.