Between Stillness and Motion

Opening Reception
Friday, March 27, 6:30 pm
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Between Stillness and Motion is presented as two monumental cinemagraphs projected onto gallery walls through 16mm film projectors, playing in an endless loop. Surrounding these moving images is an array of miniature still frames – photographic enlargements drawn from the same film – arranged vertically to evoke a film strip laid flat.

Emerging from an exploration of analogue approaches to lens-based art, this work pushes the boundaries of innovation in media art techniques by resisting its confinement to the digital realm. The cinemagraphs are shot, developed, edited, and projected entirely through analogue processes. This material engagement foregrounds tactility and process, emphasizing the physical labour embedded in both image-making and the rituals of self-care pictured in the cinemagraphs.

The looping nature of the cinemagraph destabilizes the notion of a decisive moment, inviting viewers to linger within repetition and drift. In contrast, the still frames interrupt the flow of motion – isolating the individual fragments that make up the illusion of movement. The image of a girl having her hair braided unfolds as a ritual of daily patience: a gesture both intimate and enduring. Through its endless looping, the work meditates on the slow temporality of care, repetition, and stillness. The analogue projection adds a sensory depth to this act, immersing the viewer in a rhythm that is both continuous and suspended.

Between Stillness and Motion becomes evidence of the camera’s yearning to hold time still, allowing viewers to drift through repetition and rhythm, observing how stillness and movement continuously fold into one another. 

Please note this exhibition is not wheelchair accessible.