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Colleen Hunter / James Forward Galerie Depardieu is pleased to present the coming together of two London-based artists Colleen Hunter and James Forward for their first show in France. Colleen HunterIn Do You Hear What I Hear? (2004-6), Colleen Hunter has created an interactive micro-universe of emotions and feelings. A huge mirror-grid hovers ominously above the gallery space. Whilst wearing cordless headphones, each participator blindly navigates the space below, encased in a personal world of song. Each song sung by the artist to convey differing states of emotion. As their inverted reflection floats above them, their self-consciousness is heightened. Each participator is free to embark on a unique personal musical journey, but is bound by chance and the narrow constraints of this artist-created micro-universe. A short walk, a single footstep or even a slight head movement could change their fate. In this emotional game, egos boost and deflate, participators stand side by side physically, but can be poles apart emotionally, detached from the world around them. Whilst Colleen Hunter’s work explodes the small, internal and private space of the mind into a public room-sized installation, James Forward does the opposite. Using the internet he collects vast amounts of information from around the world and displays it in small-sized, intimate works. James Forward For this exhibition James Forward has made digital-animation works that use computer technology to display information collected live from the internet. Each work exhibited, will evolve over the duration of the exhibition, changing with time, in sync with the web and the world. Genesis Live (2006), searches for the meaning of life using the internet search engine Google. It continuously translates the first chapter of the Bible on the creation of Heaven, Earth and Man into Google Image Search results pages. A laptop installation shows the animated results. The search seems futile, as the endless procession of images merge into a banal cyber-drool. The results however, can prove to be endlessly fascinating. The images, Biblical verses, and words interact creating resonance, nonsenses, blasphemies, and also social and political commentaries. A Brief History of Now (2006) displays a live-feed of internet searches as they happen in real-time around the world. On-screen, the words and phrases fly slowly into the distance, becoming increasingly small and indecipherable. Finally they disappear, lost forever. A muse on time and humanity, A Brief History of Now, reveals an enticing and fleeting insight into society’s thoughts as they appear and vanish.
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