Image above: Internet Mountains 12, 2014 © Clive Holden
From 17 September to 15 October Clive Holden’s Internet Mountains series is on show at Toronto’s Stephen Bulger Gallery. A preview of the show is now available online via the gallery’s website.
The intriguing series (a mixture of chromogenic prints and short films) is a manifestation of Holden’s interest in the mechanics of time and perception. Although these video and photo-based compositions are computer-rendered and manipulated, they are still very much rooted in the landscape photography genre.
Image above: Internet Mountain 18, 2014 © Clive Holden
Born and bred in British Columbia, Holden was inspired at an early age by the landscape that surrounded him.
Holden says, ‘Traditionally, in a museum or in a home, the audience’s physical engagment with a work of art is assumed; they can stand, sit, fidget or walk away. I’m interested in making work that’s on the cusp of time-based and non-time-based, or that obliterates this dichotomy. I think of it all now as a ‘post-durational’; the constraint of a fixed duration is abandoned in favour of a quality of liveness – of embracing chance and accommodating our impulsive nature as human beings.’
Image above: Internet Mountains 21, Variant 2, 2016 © Clive Holden
See the online preview here
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Image above: Internet Mountains 28, 2012 © Clive Holden
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