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Now You Don't
Richard Couzins, Christopher Lee and Carly Rogers
Private view: Thursday 11
April 2002
12 April - 5 May 2002
Richard
Couzins' new video takes the punctuation qualities of
emblematic still-shots of TV soaps and sit-coms and turns them in
on themselves. Couzins exploits the rhythmic possibilities of editing
and its fragmenting effect on narrative using voiceover-text-image
conjuring.
 
Christopher Lee has made a frieze
of photographs of toys on identical backgrounds. Painted dots on
the surface of the prints cover the image area of the toys - their
familiar outline just recognisable. Lee is interested in material
contrasts: the irregularly applied matt paint partially obliterating
both the image and the gloss of the surface; the comforting and
familiar rendered indistinct.
Carly Rogers' large-scale photographs
show the basic accoutrements of a magic act. The objects are arranged
as they would be in a catalogue shot. The nature of the imagery
combines an awkward vulnerability, inherent in the objects and their
construction, with an authority and confidence created by the way
in which they have been photographically recorded and presented.
What you see is what you get, but it is not enough. When the cards
are on the table - and face up - what is left but hearts, clubs,
diamonds and spades and the possibilities of the game.
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