Category: Moving Image Art
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By breaking down and re-constituting spectators’ movement through her moving-image works, Melanie Manchot re-defines the social spaces that have historically excluded women. Off the back of her first feature film, STEPHEN, premiering at Liverpool Biennal 2023, In Darkness and Light contextualises Manchot’s video practice with contemporaneous works that chart the German photographer’s skills in moving…
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Rivers’ filmic trialogue presents a dystopia of language and representation, flickering ceaselessly between reverent and polemical. The pre-fab screening room that takes up the majority of Kate McGarry limits light ascetically. The black-and-white film doesn’t offer a lot of light to reflect off the mostly black interior. The only source of light, fitted in a…
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Ain Bailey presents an exemplary demonstration of cultural reception and memory with The Jamaica Project. The centrepiece of Ain Bailey’s The Jamaica Project, a new iPhone-shot travelogue of her trip to Jamaica, 5C Jacques Road: Part One, plays on vast, floating screen; with the crowds that surround it on opening night, it feels like discovering…
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Goldmiths CCA pieces together a the radical history of Paper Tiger Television in a recent retrospective on the collective. I am someone who enjoys nothing more than returning home after a long day at work, sinking into my sofa, and letting the soft, hazy glow of whatever trash TV show I’m currently consumed by occupy…
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For his 15th show at the historic venue, Lisson Gallery exhibit a selection of arborous works by the late Canadian artist Rodney Graham. From camera-obscura works, to painting, conceptual sculpture and video, the multi-media exhibition captures a groundbreaking artist’s time in history as well as nature. The main gallery of Lisson’s Bell Street location, which…
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If you have ever felt like the rear end of a car is frowning at you, or if you have a special item of clothing that you wear for good luck, it is likely that you have experienced apophenia. This is the human tendency to perceive patterns and form conclusions based around unrelated sets of…
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As the door of Victoria Miro opens to reveal the bright lights of the expansive gallery, the viewer is immediately drawn in, like a moth to a flame. The fluorescent glow beckons, and it may take a moment to notice the dimly lit stairs tucked to the left. With no prescribed order to follow, one…
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Multimedia artist Joe Moss turns Matt’s Gallery into a playroom for surveillance technology in his latest intertextual, multi-verse installation. Moss’ oeuvre often deals in sculptures, particularly smaller models that evoke themes of cuteness and vulnerability. In Automated Fantasy Procedure, two small drones take their place, flying overhead, recording a path shown on the two screens,…
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Umi Ishihara’s solo exhibition Nocturnal Melody, her first in Europe, follows with a curious ambivalence the lives and ambitions of two dancers in a Shibuya gentleman’s club, inviting viewers into Tokyo’s seedy alternative nightlife scene. Across two galleries, Ishihara builds a colourful, kaleidoscopic account of this nocturnal world. She intersperses documentary footage with direct camera addresses by…
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United at NıCOLETTı last autumn, Valentin Noujaïm brings his urban enigmas Pacific Club (2022) and To Exist Under Permanent Suspicion (2024), where they were joined by Demons to Diamonds, fresh off its gallery tour in 2025, to complete the artist’s La Défense Trilogy. While the films attempt to mystify a topic widely written about, the…
