Reflections on Rorschach, 2019, two channel film installation
June 2019
Manifattura Tabacchi, Florence
Reflections on Rorschach was part of a group show curated by Linda Loppa titled “If I could Unless We” held at the Manifattura Tabacchi, Florence.
The “Reflections on Rorschach” installation consists of two films, identical in pattern but monochromatically opposed, reconfigured by mirroring, and splicing the frame in two so that it continually folds on itself.
The work explored the intersection between the intimate and expansive, static and kinetic, where the image no longer sits on the surface but reaches out through human scale and interaction, offering an expansive view of an artistic and creative gesture. The garment worn by the model becomes a surface/screen for projection providing a site of encounter with the emerging and dissolving kinetic image.
The film articulates the image and the body’s appearance and disappearance in everchanging monochromatic densities, becoming a haptic landscape of affect and emotion where the spectacle of the image unfolds. The films, therefore, have the transformational capacity to give ‘material’ and ‘dimensional’ form to the intersection between drawn gesture, surface, and body, that engages the viewer in the process of re-seeing and ‘imaginative re-wearing’.
Through the drawn digital action of mirroring and projection, the familiar becomes unfamiliar; individuality is revealed and that hybrid - the disruptive, provocative pivot in-between garment and body, surface and image - always unfolding and evolving, from the material to the virtual, is revealed.