Image: To create All the Blinks (detail above), Ecuadorian artist Oscar Santillan watched every film starring James Dean taking a screenshot whenever the actor was shown blinking and presenting these images en masse in order to produce a complete static record. Repeatedly presenting the vulnerability in the moment of blinking subvert the machismo associated with this actor and in this quantity becomes quite unsettling. Santillan takes an unconsciously repeated human action and applies his own repetitive process in order to bring this almost imperceptible ritual to the fore.
Copperfield is a new art gallery opening today Tuesday 27th of May (6 – 9pm), 5 minutes south of Tate Modern on Copperfield St. www.coppefieldgallery.com
The gallery launches with the artists:
Alastair Mackie, David Rickard, Oscar Santillan, Tom Dale, Yun-Kyung Jeong, Eric Van Hove, Ra di Martino, littlewhitehead, Darren Harvey-Regan.
The opening exhibition is Obsessive Compulsive Order featuring: Alastair Mackie, David Rickard, Oscar Santillan, Tom Dale, Yun Kyung-Jeong
The desire for repetition and order forms an inherent part of the human psyche. This exhibition considers the creative application of repetitive processes, motifs and meticulous order found in contemporary art practice. The artists lead us to consider why human beings are so drawn to repeated, ritualised actions and to motifs which become increasingly familiar as they are presented over and over again.
More Details Here: www.copperfieldgallery.com/obsessive-compulsive-order
