Image and text can illustrate each other or simply coexist in the same space.
In film making, as in life, we accept the juxtaposition. Both image and text can be read as narrative but meaning may evade the audience. A painted surface and a single frame of film suggest that an event has happened, a phenomenon however, the single frame in film is 1/24th second and while the moment is captured it is only a fragment of a possible whole, a transition between one moment and the next. It provides the illusion of capture but requires a multitude of frames to render movement. Drawn as a storyboard however, text is required as stage directions, camera movement and dialogue. As such it is artificial.
The imagery for this exhibition of paintings came not from the fleeting concept of time contained in film the extended time of the life studio pose. The hours pass slowly, the pose remains unaltered, a body in space with whom the artists do not communicate. Music play in the background – the lyrics of Joni Mitchell. The elements coexist.
The use of timecode as painting titles suggest that each work is a specific moment in time that essentially does not and cannot exist.