BETWEEN TIMES | JASON DEE
Exhibition
18 December - 24 January 2008*
Opening Reception
Thursday 18 December 7PM
(Image: Jason Dee, “We’re going for a trip across the water”, 2006)
PLATFORM centre for photographic + digital arts and Video Pool Media Arts Centre are pleased to present the the solo exhibition, Between Times, by Scottish artist, Jason Dee.
Within the short but emotionally loaded single and dual-channel video pieces being screened, Dee captures his audience with visually unsettling, yet haunting and beautifully framed puns on the act of perception. The film scenes contain self-reflexive elements such as back-projections or recording devices, referencing obsolete technologies and the worlds they capture. These scenes appear dislocated, sealed off in space and time, with the actors occupying them caught in a state of limbo. Old films are repositories of societal memories, and by using software to dissolve their fixed surface, Dee reveals ghost worlds, echoing up from a bedrock of universal human desires and fears: love, transcendence, isolation, and death.
Jason Dee was born in Sunderland, northern England. He studied photography at Northumbria University and completed an MFA at Glasgow School of Art, where he now works. He has exhibited widely in Britain, Europe and North America and is currently undertaking a residency at Stills Photography Gallery in Edinburgh.
Please join us for the opening reception Thursday the 18th of December, beginning at 7PM.