"The Quality of Being Fleeting", Gillian Brown & Cherie Sampson

The work of video artists Gillian Brown & Cherie Sampson shares preoccupation with the in-between: glimpses of the subtle junctions between the substantial and the fleeting, form and dissolution, stillness and movement, void and quickening. Within these subtle junctions, the artists in their individual practices each explore suspension of duality and transience, expressed through various shared philosophical underpinnings, visual language and approaches to soundscape. Prevalent lexicons in their work include images that slowly dissolve, one into the other, creating transformations in disparate time, scale, and place: one season quietly slips into another; city lights become the cosmos; figures simply slide from view or merge with the landscape. Shifting perception and the evanescence of existence itself is intrinsic to both artists’ intermedia work.

Thematic allusions and motifs mutually investigated include the nature of the universe (order/chaos), natural cycles, the body, somatic introspection, coding and the languages of science – Gillian, inquiring into physics and mathematics and Cherie into medicine and genetics. Visual arrangements take form as multiplicity, geometry and symmetry, layering, juxtaposition and diagramming, often coalescing with text and textual references. Stratified sound environments are integral to their works, constructed of found sound, field recording and the presence of their own voices – whispered and spoken reading, recitation and chant.

Their pieces are exhibited in several ways: as single channel videos, video projections onto sculptural objects or in installation spaces, often incorporating projection surfaces of gauze and silk, integrated into armatures of wire and wood. In Jill’s work, photography and painting intersect with her new media processes. Cherie’s live performances are often set in media-immersive spaces.

The exhibition runs as part of the Currents New Media Festival that takes place from June 17-26, 2022.

For More Information, visit https://currentsnewmedia.org/the-quality-of-being-fleeting/