Dereck Harris – Sequence V, 2024

In these works on board and feature digital and photographic images, where the tropes of depth of field are brought into play with disruptive pixilation. The use of hand painted veils presents visual interference and further mediates the original videocaptured images. This interplay of mechanical and painted nuance adds distance to the images which depict moments of a frozen dance performance. The paintings imply, on the one hand, an elegiac loss of the vital aura of lived performed experience, and on the other, the interplay of mechanical tropes bringing the viewers awareness back to the forms of technological representation. The duality at play questions the reliability of any poetic reading – and creates an oscillation, a recurrence of doubt.