31 March 2012 - 24 June 2012
This spring, New York-based artist Zoe Leonard transforms Gallery 3 of the Camden Arts Centre into a camera obscura.
Daylight filters-in through a lens, projecting an image of the world outside
onto the floor, walls and ceiling, creating a spatially immersive experience.
Alongside this, Gallery 1 is filled with a new series of photographs of the sun
and in Gallery 2 there is an installation of found postcards of Niagara
Falls.
The camera obscura [dark chamber] has been used since ancient times. The experience of Leonard’s moving installation is in real time and invites comparisons with film and video. As the panorama unravels continually inside the space, attention is drawn to the shifts in movement and light - some barely perceptible, some dramatic.
The camera obscura [dark chamber] has been used since ancient times. The experience of Leonard’s moving installation is in real time and invites comparisons with film and video. As the panorama unravels continually inside the space, attention is drawn to the shifts in movement and light - some barely perceptible, some dramatic.
Leonard is harnessing the phenomenon of the camera obscura
to think about ways of looking, recording and experiencing time and space as
well as broadening current conversations about what photography is or can be.
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