PRESS RELEASE

TIM WHITE –SOBIESKI
The Presence and The Runner

VIDEO INSTALLATIONS
3-channel video loop installations, soundtrack by the artist,
SD DV and 16mm format, PAL/NTSC, B&W and color
approximate duration 5 min per loop, soundtrack 15 min
Photograph series” six original cibachromes mounted on plexiglas,
44x60 in each, analog enlargement printing from 4x5 chromes

 

          Tim White's two video wall projections “Presence” (1998) and “Abandonment of El Alamein – The Runner” (1998).  In these works, the relationship between war and the mediation of war experiences through the prism of image reproduction is essential. Tim White took original documentary film footage of battles from World War II, then subjected these presentations of real war to manipulation of subconscious will to carry your brief being on Earth as close to non-being as possible.

“Presence” is a two-channel video projection consisting of a sequence of handmade frames rendered and based on anonymousdocumentary film footage dating back to World War II’s battleof El Alamein in Northern Africa, fought between Italian and British troops. The artist'swork is a meditative transition from severe reality between forgotten birth and virtual death of a human being. The effect of the bullets tracing and illuminating some dark sky has been expressed dramatically through video effects created by the artist This act resulted in certain abstract striking images – sparkles of light, an unavoidable way of destruction, at one time exciting and desperate, misty yet cruelly live on the edge next to void.

“Abandonment of El Alamein – The Runner” - the artist's second video projection. The viewer sees a ghostly image of an endlessly breaking out anonymous soldier vaguely silhouetted in the smoke and debris of a battle fire. In this film the artist pictures that forever young and forever running away from the void man. The original footage captures the elimination of a soldier by an explosion. Tim White reminds us, viewers, of the violently ephemeral nature of life (not only during wartime). The soldier in “The Runner” is present and absent at the same instant, contradictory to his own self.

In addition to the two wall projections the gallery will exhibit six of the artist’s plexiglas mounted cibachromes – hand rendered photographs based on video “Presence” and “Abandonment of El Alamein – The Runner.” These images are emblematic of a lost moment in time that can be so perfectly claimed through the artifice of contemporary mediation.

 

 

 

© TIM WHITE-SOBIESKI