The 2011 LCC BA Photography Show had some intriguing work. Harry Jones’ investigation into the ‘poetic absurdity of romanticism’ required him to spend long times in isolation in the Scottish Highlands. The work he presents are quiet and beautiful video and images. They are mountainous, but not overly specific to the Highlands. A troubling story is hinted at through the combination of these images and a sheet of obscure facts that accompanies. ‘Christmas day was spent up a mountain 872 times taller than me’ lends thoughts to acts of paradoxical madness; repetitive and schizophrenic behaviour in isolation to evade loosing sanity.
Constantin Cerdan’s work instantly caught my attention with associations to this year’s Deutche Börse shortlist Thomas Demand. Cerdan’s minimal recreation of a supermarket creates a self-reflexive text. By revealing the gaps of the set in-between the ceiling and the walls, attention is drawn to the construction of reality. Its edifice cross-textually references to ‘a glitch in the Matrix’ and the barren banal image inspires though of 28 Days Later Armageddon and abandonment.
Cerdan’s images allures to play and humour. He conveys self-awareness by providing a fragment of a shop. Simple indicators are enough to give the audience all the information that they need to know. The Humour and the structural composition of the scene allow an underlying darker presence of panoptical control.
links to each of the artist's work:
http://www.harry-jones.co.uk
http://www.constantincerdan.com/
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