| Eleanor
Mac Farlane
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Glasgow, Scotland. 1964
Moving Image - photography existing in time.
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| About the Artist |
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My Moving Image is non-narrative, poetic and abstract. My subjects are generated by scientific and optical ideas, by way of a philosophical translation into form. So the meaning of my works can be traced back to universal truths concerning light and shade, or the pull of magnetism and how that is akin to psychological tendencies. I never came across a scientific theory or astronomical fact that I couldn’t relate directly to my own thinking, or the human experience. It is as if the Universe is a model of the internal experience, subject to laws, some of which we can comprehend. My work is a quest to translate such nebulous ideas into form.
My practice is also informed by years of photographic experimentation. I have a highly developed aesthetic style, and create images without computer manipulation, tricking the camera into revealing layers of reality. I have an inventive, low-tech approach to work, striving for simple ways to show layers of complexity and paradox. In many ways I see my videos as multi-faceted photographs, or photographs which exist in time rather than on paper.
more Moving Image stills on Artists Profile.
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| Artist's Videos |
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| Volume. 2 mins of 15 (2008)
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(Duration: 00:01:59)
VOLUME. The mass of human knowledge flows like a wave passing through this world in solid form. This stream of ideas is unknowable in its entirety, as if comprising a shared mind. Fleetingly graspable, each voice and thought is bound in time, as ephemeral as their authors’ lives. (2 mins of 15)
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| Equilibrium. 2 mins of 12 (2008)
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(Duration: 00:02:00)
EQUILIBRIUM.Forces that drive us can feel compelling but unresolvable. Nature shifts within; feelings gather in density, or evaporate like cloud formations. We experience layers of influences, sometimes in opposition to each other, even contrary to will and desire. Yet we press on in life, as people have to. Amidst the constantly changing weather of the mind, some inner threshold processes opposing forces, reaching a shifting equilibrium. (2 mins of 12)
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| Currentcy. 2 mins of 9 (2008)
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(Duration: 00:01:59)
CURRENTCY. Money exists through layers of meaning and undercurrents – perpetual interactions between concrete things and intangible beliefs and desires. It is a medium of exchange between the physical and the abstract, a multifaceted energy circulating from hand to hand, receiver or resistor. (2 mins of 9)
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| Ever. 2 mins of 15 (2008)
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(Duration: 00:01:59)
EVER. A neverending series of staircases, merging one into the next. Ascending into night; into day; through weather; stalking interiors.
Constantly unfolding associations ascend through atmospheres and times, pacing through dreams, nightmares. Forever in motion. On and on. Towards. Away from. Ever. (2 mins of 15)
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| Transition. 2 mins of 11 (2008)
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(Duration: 00:01:59)
TRANSITION. Streams of people pass by, pass each other, casting shadows and reflections – the merest layer of presence. Amongst the multitude, what may be inferred, what read, about a person, about humanity. (2 mins of 11)
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| I wonder if (2005)
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(Duration: 00:04:39)
I WONDER IF. Script at the pace of thought. (4 mins 40 secs)
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| Existence. 2 mins of 6 1/2 (2007)
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(Duration: 00:02:00)
EXISTENCE. A hand, illuminated almost to negative; a breast glowing with life and presence; these slivers of existence, leaking the feeling of lifeblood within, are intimate, rhythmic – an open secret. (2 mins of 6 1/2)
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| Contraption. 2 mins of 15 (2006)
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(Duration: 00:02:00)
CONTRAPTION. Light captured yet seeming to occur naturally. Light like plastecine, to feel and pull, and throw in the air to defy gravity. Light writhing, transformed into an isolated object, disembodied and floating.(2 mins of 15)
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| Education and biography |
BA Fine Art Hons.
middlesex university. 2006
various group exhibitions and screenings, mostly London, including:
Rotoreliefs. London.2009.
The Archive Project. London. 2008.
Warp.gallery@Oxo Tower.2007.
Objectify.Royal Academy Schools Gallery. 2007.
Mirror, Signal. The Bigger Picture, Manchester.2007.
solo exhibition: Viewer, contemporary art on vintage equipment, Hornsey Town Hall, London , 2007.
Chairism. Candid Arts Trust.2006.
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