Underground -10 mobile phones playing looped videos.
The small portraits of strangers were recorded on the artist’s mobile phone, which provided her with camouflage enabling her to get close to her subjects whilst remaining anonymous.
The artist travelled London’s tube network across a period of a month and collected numerous portraits of anonymous passengers. Nine portraits were selected, and in post-production small vignettes created around the individuals, each person is within their own porthole but the complete work does have a certain subtle choreography or rhythm of its own. The work has an intimacy that draws the viewer into a voyeuristic place, leaving the filmed passengers vulnerable to our scrutiny and setting up tension.
The work asks questions about an obsessed screen based culture, who is surveying who and the power and distribution of information.
The small portraits of strangers were recorded on the artist’s mobile phone, which provided her with camouflage enabling her to get close to her subjects whilst remaining anonymous.
The artist travelled London’s tube network across a period of a month and collected numerous portraits of anonymous passengers. Nine portraits were selected, and in post-production small vignettes created around the individuals, each person is within their own porthole but the complete work does have a certain subtle choreography or rhythm of its own. The work has an intimacy that draws the viewer into a voyeuristic place, leaving the filmed passengers vulnerable to our scrutiny and setting up tension.
The work asks questions about an obsessed screen based culture, who is surveying who and the power and distribution of information.
