Transfixed Motion / Transitory Still

An exhibition that explores the two notions of stillness and movement, and how these can powerfully conflict, contradict or compliment each other. In closing his contribution to the essay collection, Stillness and Time: Photography and the Moving Image, David Campany postulates:

‘Photography has all but given up the ‘decisive moment’ in order to explore what a moment is; video art has all but given up movement, the better to think what movement is … But must the speedy always be sacrificed in all this? Need slowness be the only way? At this key point in the histories of art and media, I think it is a question worth posing. And a pose worth questioning’.    – ‘Posing, Acting, Photography’

Curated by Esther Johnson and David Williams, the exhibition brings together a diverse group of 22 UK-based artists whose work reflects the above quote and who incorporate moving image, photography and/or sound into their practice.  

 

Participating artists

Alex Baker; Laura Bell; Wil Bolton; Savinder Bual; Joe Clark; Odette England; Kathryn Faulkner; Dave Griffiths; Aline Helmcke; Lizzie Hughes; Michal Iwanowski; Leo Koivistoinen; Yaron Lapid; Michaela Nettell; Minou Norouzi; Anna Pickering; Angelo Picozzi; Brian Rhodes; Christopher Steel; Jacki Storey; Rachel Tweddle; Dawn Woolley   

 

 

Exhibition dates:                            

Friday 3 April–Saturday 18 April
Monday–Saturday 10am–4pm
Closed Good Friday 10 April and Easter Monday 13 April