Anna Lucas
Things that had stories rubbed out

Garden of 28 Clifton Road

10:00-18:00 Thursday - Sunday

me stairs and a tree

A hosepipe

A van

Tom is sitting next to a wall

Jesus

A maze

Doom and a maze and a hedge

Lots of rocks fall on some grass

This erm, this like computer virus thing

It’s like this tower and you fall into it and you cant get out of it like a trap

Lots of waves crashing against the bar

Experimenting with a new studio-based process, Anna Lucas presents a 16mm film that extends her recent investigations into perception, projection and vision. Lucas worked closely with artist Jo Addison to build a collection of photographs of objects that could be seen as screens or blank spaces. The images were used as a starting point for filming torch-lit visual dialogues with a group of artists. The film uses raw and tentative footage from these shared moments of looking, in which glimpses and fragments of connection may be all that is discernable.

… they all seem to have some relationship to both a projection surface but also with a viewfinder and then the square of the print. So there is a layering of framing and some of them seem to reflect back so they become an empty space even though they are an object within it.

Anna Lucas is a London based artist film-maker. Her recent work Demonstration 50.15 was screened at Whitechapel Gallery for New Work UK April 2010. Made in the Anatomy Department at the University of Oxford whilst on a Wellcome Trust Fellowship this work and Blind Movies, a recent publication of drawings are part of ongoing research into vision and perception. Little White Feather and the Hunter (HDV 40min 2009 Commissions East) looking at truth and fiction around the myth of Native American Princess Pocahontas has screened in UK and USA. Her films Kaff Mariam and Una de Gato (HDV 23min each Fact/Film London 2007) were shown as a solo show at FACT and subsequently touring to Sweden. Seventh Heaven (16mm 9min Whitechapel Gallery 2006) has recently toured UK and Germany with S1 Salon. She has also had solo shows Adrift, Chisenhale Gallery, Bud, Spike Island Bristol, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne and commissions with Aspex Gallery, Picture This Moving Image. Her work is distributed by LUX.