The Image Unfolds
Alex Walker
28
April 2021
28
April
2021
22
May 2021
Gallery 1
The Image Unfolds explores the ability of architecture and projected image to work in symbiosis, forming a reflexive relationship: from three dimensional space, a two dimensional image is captured, only to become three dimensional again as projected light, wrapping and warping with the architecture of the gallery space. Images locomote to momentarily align with architectural elements and interlace with their bisected counterparts, embodying a poetic repetition of loss and longing.Other interventions encourage a particular way of seeing which highlights architectural features and phenomenological encounters with the space itself. In The Image Unfolds, architecture becomes a lens through which to view the world, much like the eye of a camera which is directed by bodily movement. Images become expanded and unfixed: gallery windows crop their contents visually, shifting and changing as you adjust positions, the plane of a wall is also an image, four walls can become a frame if you look hard enough; then the image will unfold.This exhibition is presented in partnership with the Centre for Projection Art, Artist in Residence Program.The Centre for Projection Art, Artist in Residence Program is currently supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria and the Besen Family Foundation.
The Image Unfolds explores the ability of architecture and projected image to work in symbiosis, forming a reflexive relationship: from three dimensional space, a two dimensional image is captured, only to become three dimensional again as projected light, wrapping and warping with the architecture of the gallery space. Images locomote to momentarily align with architectural elements and interlace with their bisected counterparts, embodying a poetic repetition of loss and longing.Other interventions encourage a particular way of seeing which highlights architectural features and phenomenological encounters with the space itself. In The Image Unfolds, architecture becomes a lens through which to view the world, much like the eye of a camera which is directed by bodily movement. Images become expanded and unfixed: gallery windows crop their contents visually, shifting and changing as you adjust positions, the plane of a wall is also an image, four walls can become a frame if you look hard enough; then the image will unfold.This exhibition is presented in partnership with the Centre for Projection Art, Artist in Residence Program.The Centre for Projection Art, Artist in Residence Program is currently supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria and the Besen Family Foundation.
Alex Walker
Alex Walker is a visual artist working with photography, projection and installation to create phenomenological encounters with site and space. Using abstract images to challenge perception and activate architectural elements within the gallery and beyond. Alex employs a distinct visual language of image, surface and light to generate spatio-temporal encounters which are unique to the space they are presented in.