- Venue
- London Gallery West
- Starts
- Thursday, November 17, 2011
- Ends
- Sunday, January 8, 2012
- Address
- School of Media Art and Design University of Westminster Harrow Campus Watford Road HA1 3TP
- Location
- London
These new works by Jini Rawlings are inspired by her personal response to the stories and landscapes described in two historic journals by wartime trawler captain Alfred Craig and 19th century traveler and writer Elizabeth Jane Oswald. Rawlings sailed to Iceland in 2010 to film some of the significant places referenced in these writings and to explore how their disparate journeys might be linked across time and location. The resulting mixed-media video installations are based on fragments of narratives from these documents, and incorporate location filming and archival script. Using non-synchronous loops to reflect the slippage of memory, these works create a continuously changing reading of image and text that explores the experience of the outsider, cultural connectedness and otherness. The gesture of the wave, welcoming or bidding farewell, suggests a memory of home. The exhibition comprises 2 multi screen projections, 1 single screen projection through Perspex onto black glass, 9silk hanging and text.
