This version of ‘How were the shadows made’ was adapted for the exhibition ‘Built Overnight’. It took place in a disused shop once a betting shop and before that a painting and decorating shop.
The viewers entered a dark space at the back of the shop to find Technicolor film footage of a destroyed building being played in a boiler cupboard with its door slightly ajar. The US Army made the film in the aftermath of the Hiroshima A-bomb in 1946.
Further on in the room, a mahogany mobile hanged like a collapsed puppet alluding to a falling window frame.
This work juxtaposes different objects and historical references within a non-gallery space, bringing subjective meaning and creating different narratives for the viewer.
Exhibition:
Built Overnight, Edinburgh
How were the shadows made
series 2
Installation: sculpture and archive film
Edinburgh 2010
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