black painting, 2013
black painting, 2013
<p><em>black painting</em>, 2013. Installation, detail, Super 8 moving image projection, mute, 39:13min., looped,  dimensions variable. [<em>Black cube,</em> Victorian College of the Arts, 2013]</p>

black painting, 2013. Installation, detail, Super 8 moving image projection, mute, 39:13min., looped, dimensions variable. [Black cube, Victorian College of the Arts, 2013]

<p><em>black painting</em>, 2013. Installation, detail, Super 8 moving image projection, mute, 39:13min., looped, box board, tacks, dimensions variable. Photogrpah Matthew Stanton. [<em>seventh</em>, project space, Melbourne, 2014]</p>

black painting, 2013. Installation, detail, Super 8 moving image projection, mute, 39:13min., looped, box board, tacks, dimensions variable. Photogrpah Matthew Stanton. [seventh, project space, Melbourne, 2014]

Martina Copley, black painting, 2013. Installation, detail, Super 8 moving image projection, mute, 39:13min. looped. [Black cube, Victorian College of the Arts, 2013; seventh, project space, Melbourne, 2014]

black painting is a silent, looped single image digital projection installation. Recorded on super 8 film, a circle of sunlight falls unsteadily on a devotional painting. This light, while showing part of the image also introduces new material and a skewed geometry. The image materialises, stutters and dissolves. Circularity is cut by the frame of the architectural element that doesn't hold.
An apprehension of multiple or contingent orders, the work connects to memory and transcription; processes in which losses and divergences figure meaning. It looks at the ways things resist translation and how the world insinuates itself as a kind of notation of subjective modalities. Familiar painterly and filmic readings of colour and story are disturbed by material and perceptual considerations.

<p><em>black painting (dark lens)</em> paired text by Lynette Smith</p>

black painting (dark lens) paired text by Lynette Smith


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