Manholes (David) is a looped video projection that takes a pan of a male figure and fragments it into a grid of peepholes. The microscopic mapping of the body is intimate yet clinical. The cascading body parts create a kaleidoscope of changing skin tones. It is difficult to find the point of origin on the subject’s body, though occasionally signifiers make it possible; an eye, a nipple or the toes suddenly orient the viewer. This work was first presented in 2010 as part of the A Bright and Guilty Place group exhibition at Payne Shurvell Gallery in London.
HD video projection, stereo, colour, looped, 2010