- Venue
- Millais Gallery and Millais Gallery Off Site Projects
- Starts
- Thursday, October 28, 2010
- Ends
- Monday, February 28, 2011
- Address
- Sir James Mattews Building, Southampton Solent University, Above Bar Street, Southampton, SO14 7NN
- Location
- South East England
Katayoun Dowlatshahi was commissioned by the Millas Gallery to create a site specific temporary art work for Millais Off Site Projects. She has a unique and particular view of glass and its reflective possibilities. In this commission she imagines the reflections in the windows as another reality; a reality in which the many reflections of cars, buses and passers-by are captured and simultaneously layered by the camera shutter. Using photography, Katayoun applies all the technical possibilities of the medium – the lens to catch the view of traffic flowing by, the layering of the reflections in the windows, double exposures – to build an image that is both realistic and illusory. This technology allows us to capture the smallest moments in time. The artist takes the pictures, builds up the scene and edits the result so that we can glimpse a new world. What emerges is a hidden world, layered and remade to the point of abstraction. As the artist says: “Our collective consciousness often chooses only to see material forms as they are presented; by forcing the hand of time we can discover hidden phenomena of unexpectedbeauty, just as real as perceived reality but intangible.”
