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Pause is an exhibition featuring the work of a number of Phoenix-based artists who work with the moving image and explore the medium of film and video to create a series of specially made installations. Themes of the work on show range from impossible quests to nursery rhymes, unsolved mysteries, rediscovered footage and shifting still-lives. The images flicker within cabinets and across objects and walls.
Among the artists on show include Fox & Gammidge’s installation Who Killed Cock Robin which takes a sideways look at this dark tale, pulling out fragments that resonate with their own experiences in relation to loss, ritual and their connection to the natural world. Meanwhile, filmmaker Gary Barber teams up with sound artist Tim Brickell in a series of three short observational films based around social gatherings, drawn from 16mm black and white film and found footage. Emilia McKenzie asks: ‘What does it mean to be unable to wake up from a dream’ in a piece inspired by an actual dream.
There is also a rolling programme of short films inviting the visitor to pause and linger within a cinema space.
Pause, Phoenix Gallery, Waterloo Place, Brighton, until 1 December
