Assault (still)
©
All rights reserved
Runa Islam 2008 Australia
16mm colour film, silent. Image courtesy the artist and White Cube, London
RUNA ISLAM
MCA - Museum of Contemporary Art
Thursday 19 August 2010 to Sunday 21 November 2010
Exhibition
previously on
at
MCA - Museum of Contemporary Art
in
Sydney precinct,
New South Wales,
Australia
Runa Islam was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh (1970) and lives and works in London. She is renowned for her film and video installations which experiment with modes of representation as a way to reconsider ideas and visual forms.
This exhibition comprises selected installations from 2003 to the present, including a new 16mm film work jointly commissioned by the MCA Sydney and the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal. Included is a key 16mm film installation Be The First To See What You See As You See It (2004). Using a stylized aesthetic approach, it depicts a young woman as she walks purposefully through a museum-like display of porcelain crockery. Alternating between long shots and close crops, it builds in anticipation as the relationship between the girl as passive spectator, and the artifacts as valued objects, gradually alters. The tension between stillness and movement, expectation and realisation is captured in the work, notably in scenes where slow motion technique is used to extend its fragmentary and transformative qualities.
FREE
In collaboration with Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
Location
MCA - Museum of Contemporary Art140 George Street, The Rocks, Sydney Harbour foreshore at West Circular Quay
The Rocks Precinct
New South Wales
Australia
The house belongs to those who inhabit it.
© All rights reserved Runa Islam 2008 Australia
16mm colour film, silent with separate non-sync soundtrack production image. Image courtesy the artist and White Cube, London. Photograph: Runa Islam
© All rights reserved Runa Islam 2008 Australia
16mm colour film, silent with separate non-sync soundtrack production image. Image courtesy the artist and White Cube, London. Photograph: Runa Islam
Be The First To See What You See As You See It
© All rights reserved Runa Islam 2004 Australia
16mm colour film, optical sound. installation view, Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsingborg, 2005. Image courtesy the artist and White Cube, London. Photograph: Gerry Johansson
© All rights reserved Runa Islam 2004 Australia
16mm colour film, optical sound. installation view, Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsingborg, 2005. Image courtesy the artist and White Cube, London. Photograph: Gerry Johansson
