Turning back and forth

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The Blue Oyster is pleased to present Martyn Reynolds: Samuel Georgia Oscar / Turning back and forth and Eva Wuerdinger: replace. Through different methods Reynolds and Wuerdinger explore the way space is defined through temporal and shifting negotiations of use and materiality. The exhibitions will open on Tuesday 11 August at 5:30pm and will run until Wednesday 2 September.

Martyn Reynolds: Samuel Georgia Oscar / Turning back and forth

Centering on a video shot on Banks Peninsula with three actors, Reynolds explores ideas of landscape painting by mixing its tropes with those used in adverting media, fashion and car advertising.  The video has no soundtrack but Dunedin based experimental sound practitioner Alex MacKinnon will offer an audio response to the video at the opening, bringing into focus spatial presence and the relationships between cinematic and architectural space.  A series of sculptures throughout the space, chairs reformed into stools, will double as cinema seating whilst also allowing for an invitation to think about the space as a place to physically progress through or to sit and contemplate.  A reworking of Mel Bochner's measurement installations will signify elements of the architecture that potentially problematise the space of the Blue Oyster galleries which are nevertheless so overt as they are...

Eva Wuerdinger: replace

The constitution of space and its development are also central aspects of Eva Wuerdinger’s work. Her series of untitled photographs show neutral territories, vague and undefined spaces, places that are in abeyance or passed by. Her photographs, taken whilst the artist was visiting the South Island, address several issues of the complex social processes that constitute space and question its subsequent alteration in use. But Wuerdinger’s works also consider the disappearance of space, its transparency and the dissolution of spatial constructs. The viewer is kept at a distance from the depictions of spatial realities. Only hints of narration evoke a feeling of ambivalence – a twilight of perception.

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