Mis(sing) Communication

Co-exhibitors:

 Kihlberg & Henry, Neville Gabie, Oona Grimes, David Cotterrell, Paulette Phillips, and Suky Best

 

For its first online exhibition, the Danielle Arnaud Gallery presented a screening programme of video and film works by Kihlberg & Henry, Neville Gabie, Oona Grimes, David Cotterrell, Paulette Phillips, and Suky Best, curated by Tess Charnley. This presentation occurred over the course of six weeks, with a new work made available for streaming each week. The works explored ideas of spatial and bodily interiority and exteriority, solitude, communication and the elasticity of time; topics that resonated in the time of altered living of the COVID pandemic (within and without ourselves). They alluded to the possibilities of healing, as well as the complexities that arise with the repair.

Each work was available to be streamed on the artist's gallery website and also here.

David Cotterrell presented Mirror III: Horizon, which is a two-channel video installation. The project examined the challenges to trust that can occur when identities cannot be verified. Filmed in Malta, contextualised by the island’s deep historical experience of visitors who arrived repeatedly by sea, the installation drew on the fluctuating paranoia of the contemporary refugee crisis. Mirror III examined what might possibly be communicated when words are broadcast to unknown recipients and the barriers to mutual empathy that may be exacerbated through distancing and distrust.