- Venue
- Mission Gallery
- Starts
- Tuesday, November 12, 2013
- Ends
- Sunday, January 5, 2014
- Address
- Mission Gallery | Gloucester Place | Maritime Quarter | Swansea SA1 1TY | Wales | UK
- Location
- Wales
Examining the thresholds of blandness and boredom, filmworks play out in times and spaces that are generally considered invisible or overlooked. An ongoing obsession has been the fabrication of ‘real’ moments within documented footage and an engagement with filmmaking itself – the scripting, editing and artificial nature of film. Recent works have looked at the role of the surrogate or stand-in character and the questionable role of the biographer.
Through my work, with its mixture of documentary and fiction, from periods of intense activity to long silences, I want to allow a space for contemplation. The line between truth and fiction is always blurred and viewing and reviewing film has heightened my awareness of the fictions created from these edited moments of reality. I look for significance in the everyday and seek to expand fleeting moments and interstices. Beginnings and full stops become part of a wider arena; they take centre stage and become the main event. It is in these moments we are held between expectation and the unknown.
Anthony Shapland lives and works in Cardiff. He has exhibited nationally and internationally. He also writes for several art journals and founded g39 in 1998 where he currently curates.
