- Venue
- Cooper Gallery
- Starts
- Friday, January 18, 2013
- Ends
- Saturday, February 16, 2013
- Address
- Cooper Gallery, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, 13 Perth Road, Dundee, DD1 4HT
- Location
- Scotland
Estrangement reveals a haunting cinematic space that brings together works by four international artists within which apparitions of places and figures are imagined and followed. An almost beguiling word estrangement promises images of escape, of being fundamentally displaced from the world. To seize this moment divorced from the real, the works featured in the exhibition populate the uncanny space of the moving image with a range of characters and situations. From a remote controlled camera roving about a landscape, to a group of men standing uncertainly amongst ruins, the viewer is invited to “be carried along solely by the looks of the world”.* In each of the evocative video pieces different and intuitive aspects of estrangement are captured and the quiet wonder of being apart is revealed. In turns unsettling and ambiguous, the works by Fatma Bucak, Larisa Daiga, Evariste Maiga and Samuel Williams call upon the familiar and unfamiliar, the real and the illusory and bring to the Cooper Gallery rich visions of fragmentary landscapes and dissonant solitudes.*Martin Heidegger, Being and Time.
