Flight gallery installation
FILM
Dryden Goodwin
AnimateTV 2005
2005
Duration: 3'39"
Video documentation taken from the exhibition of Flight at the Chisenhale Gallery in 2006.
Description
An installation of the inter-related, including a film combining live action, animated intervention and a multi-layered soundtrack, presented alongside hundreds of small-scale pen and ink drawings, which constitute the animation.
When a visitor entered the exhibition space they discover five illuminated white, glass-topped cases, filled with laid out sets of pen and ink drawings on white paper in an amphitheatre-like formation.
Review
'Each drawing is a fragmented composite of lines placed out of apparent sequence and in varying states of completion, where lines are added and removed in increasing intensity as if there should, amongst the ghostly chaos, be a final and conclusive end vision. This display is the partner to a film with soundtrack in the adjoining space, it is within this film that the drawing begins to make a new sense. Each fragmentary line is delicately animated to look as if it is whispering through the surface of landscapes, both urban and natural. The lines of Goodwin's visual interventions swarm around the sprawl of buildings, people and trees alike, while the camera drags the viewer ever backwards until eventually it pans above a wind rippled sea. This constant movement of the camera creates a tension between what is real and what Goodwin suggests as the ultimate destination. Both the drawing and the film sit in almost counter balance of one another; each vying to claim reality where Goodwin deliberately leaves the viewer ever searching.'
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