This year at How The Light Gets In, Open Gallery will premier the latest work by Norwegian artist Sidsel Christensen, winner of the Open Prize for Video Painting 2011. Christensen’s Video Painting series, ‘Framing Sensual Phase Transitions VI’ will take place during Night Sessions in the Hall. The series will also accompany Sidsel Christensen's talk, Invisible Monsters - which explores the ineffability of human sexuality - on Wed 29th May at 11am in the Ring.
Also showing in the Hall during debates throughout the festival will be Video Painting series from a range of international artists including Isabelle Inghilleri, Roz Mortimer and Alys Williams.
The Video Painting movement was founded in 2001 as a radical new form of video art. Since then Open Gallery has represented the medium and its artists have continued to push the boundaries of the moving image. Shot with a stationary camera, a fixed lens and without sound or subsequent editing, individual Video Paintings are presented in long form thematic series.
Video Paintings serve to challenge the traditions of video art as the non-sequential character of each series creates a longevity rarely seen in narrative works.
'Framing Sensual Phase Transitions VI' by Christensen stages the artist’s body against the coastal landscapes of Norway, Tenerife and Croatia in an exploration of subjectivity that explores a new avenue within the Video Painting medium.
We would like to thank the Royal Norwegian Embassy for their support in making this event possible.
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