Oblique Lean is one of a series of pieces developed during the Summer Lodge 2015 residency, which took place each year within the Fine Art studios at Nottingham Trent University.
Part of the Peripheral View series of works, it attempts to dislocate the viewer’s initial connection with the holographic image.
Much of our visual engagement with our environment is ‘peripheral’ – images and sounds just beyond our field of focus.
Related work:Three Spaces.
Title: Oblique Lean
Date: 2015
Dimensions: Hologram 29 x 29 cm, Gallery floor (variable)
Materials: Digital hologram, video camera, video monitor, shuttered theatrical spotlight
Produced within the Summer Lodge 2015 residency at Nottingham Trent University. 29 June – 10 July 2015.
When approaching the floor-based installation, the image of the illuminated hologram is displayed live on a cubic, cathode-ray video monitor.
The shape of the shuttered light, which illuminates the hologram, monitor, and floor, reflects the spatial structure found within the hologram.
Moving through the exhibition space, an observer walks into the viewing zone of the hologram, which displays its dimensional image. At this point, the live video image is no longer visible.
Because the holographic plate leans against the monitor, its reverse is exposed, emphasising the thinness of the object and its visual contradiction – displaying a three-dimensional image within a fragile, opaque surface. The video monitor, by contrast, is a solid, cube-like structure, filled with the electronic and photonic components of the cathode ray tube required to display a flat image on its screen.
A video monitor displays a live image of the reflection hologram, which leans against the side of the monitor.
It is not possible to view the holographic image and the video image simultaneously; the viewer must move around the installation to experience both, revealing the shifting relationship between the physical and the recorded image.
