Lynette Wallworth: Hold: Vessel 2, 2007

Lynette Wallworth: Hold: Vessel 2, 2007

BFI Southbank

Colin Davison, courtesy Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, AU

June 13, 2007

Lynette Wallworth
Hold: Vessel 2, 2007

23 June – 2 September

BFI Southbank, London SE1

Lynette Wallworth’s London debut sees the BFI commissioning Hold: Vessel 2, 2007, enabling the artist to further develop her critically acclaimed piece Hold: Vessel 1, 2001. An interactive, large-scale installation that explores the intimacy and immensity of the natural world and our relationship to it, this work uses moving image and technology to reveal the hidden intricacies of human immersion in the wide, complex world.

The piece is activated by the viewer, the interaction being a metaphor for our connectedness within biological, social and ecological systems. Upon entering the exhibition space, the visitor is encouraged to ‘catch’ falling projected images of astronomical and underwater life in lens-shaped glass bowls. With intimate moments of synchronised light and sound, the installation celebrates minutiae – microscopic views of marine life forms and photographic imagery of deep space – leaving the visitor with a sense of communal participation within a complex system of which we are a part.

The images in Hold: Vessel 2 come from current visioning technologies such as X-ray Microtomography and remotely operated light sensitive cameras allowing us to see intricate detail inaccessible to the human eye. A reflection upon our own place in a complex and starkly beautiful world, the work helps us explore the complex interconnectivity between things that we do not always see or know.

Lynette Wallworth is the second of an ongoing series of art exhibitions at BFI Southbank exploring contemporary artists’ use of the moving image.
Artist’s talk: Lynette Wallworth in Conversation
Lynette Wallworth discusses her work with renowned scientist, writer and presenter Mark Lythgoe
Tue 3 July 18:20 NFT2

Entrance to the BFI Southbank Gallery is FREE.
For more information, visit www.bfi.org.uk/gallery or call 020 7928 3232

Lynette Wallworth – Hold: Vessel 1, 2001
Courtesy of and commissioned by the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Australia www.acmi.net.au

Lynette Wallworth – Hold: Vessel 2, 2007
Commissioned by the BFI, London, Produced by Forma Touring and Supported by Arts Council England

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