In the next two days, the AD Projects team will be headed out west to install CAMERA VIVANT at CUAC. Since our show last summer, Piles, we’ve been hard at work doing lots of studio visits and have met so many amazing, hard-working, and inspiring artists. In this upcoming show, we’re working with a fantastic group of 8 artists and want to share a bit about some of their works before opening on Friday. They work in photography, video, computer animation, and mixed-media installation.
We hope this will be especially enlightening for those of you who can’t make it to Utah in the next month. So without further ado, I’ll introduce a fantastic artist named Andrea Wolf. Andrea is joining us in our trek out west to Utah! We imagine it will be a lot like the Oregon Trail, except with more pico projectors and fewer oxen.
Andrea Wolf, Tennis, Little Memories (image courtesy of the artist)
Andrea Wolf projects found footage of two tennis players volleying a ball back on forth onto either side of a corner wall in her 2010 video Tennis from the series Little Memories. A small-scale, sculptural reproduction of the tennis court protrudes from this corner serving as the intermediary field between the footage of the two players on which their game is staged.
While the found footage switched perspectives between the players, Andrea split the original into two separate films depicting the players individually. She elegantly edited the film to convincingly recreate a miniature tennis game which can adapt to any corner with a right angle. The viewer experiences both the constant movement of a tennis game while also feeling a stasis and frozen moment in time since the video loops and clearly references a past occurrence.
We can’t wait to see people’s reactions as they stumble upon Andrea’s mini tennis game.
Yours (avec projectors, sans oxen),
Jill
