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Cataract

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27. Feb, 2019

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I promise you will hear Daniel’s von Sturmer’s Cataract installation before you see it. The short sound bites offer a discordant rhythm that draws the audience in despite the disharmony. The audio emanates from 81 screens set up in one large block, with each screen playing video snapshots of everyday scenes and objects.  

The videos focus on small-scale events such as exploding fireworks, wax dripping from a burning candle, water running down concrete pavement and the calm water of an empty swimming pool. The combination of these videos jumping around the different screens with random repetition creates a fascinating experience, one where the viewer can only give their attention to each individual screen rather than the whole block of screens. This reflects a notion of the world as a complex cacophony of events, which can only be focused on one scene at a time.

In a separate exhibition upstairs from Cataract, an exhibition by the same artist creates a very different experience. Von Sturmer’s animated light installation Light (facts/figures/anna schwartz gallery upstairs) uses a moving head profile light, site-specific programming and custom-built stencils to highlight the room’s architectural features. Projected light beams in varying shapes draw the viewer’s attention to seemingly ordinary objects in the space that might otherwise go unnoticed. It is quirky and humorous, simple yet engaging.

Von Sturmer is a New Zealand-born artist who now lives and works in Melbourne. He works with a range of media and different approaches including video, photography and installation. His approach is playful and experimental, looking into the relationship between the audience and the space around them.

Cataract is showing at the Anna Schwartz Gallery until Saturday, 23 March 2019 while Electric Light (facts/figures/anna schwartz gallery upstairs) is on until Saturday, 2 March 2019.

Cataract
Till Saturday, 23 March 2019
Anna Schwartz Gallery, 185 Flinders Lane, Melbourne CBD
annaschwartzgallery.com/exhibitions/cataract

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