David Burrows, Crepuscule, 2013, Medium format positive transparency, LEDs and acrylic, 80 x 6 cm, Courtesy of the artist.

David BURROWS
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Crepuscule, 2013, Medium format positive transparency, LEDs and acrylic, 80 x 6 cm, Courtesy of the artist.

David BURROWS

 

David Burrows is an audiovisual artist living and working in Inverloch. He trained as an artist in France, where he was mentored by Chantal Ackerman and Ryoji Ikeda. The artist’s work is concerned with exploring the landscape as an experience framed through cultural and personal structures that limit and define our perception of the world.

The artwork included in this exhibition, from his series Crepuscule of 2013, bridges night and day together as one long elongated image. The long exposure image created on transparency positive film required the entire film to pass through the camera with an open shutter. The effect is to compress time into a single frame. Of this work, David Burrows has written, “I am intrigued by the ambiguity and disorientation that occurs midway through moments of transition, the ungraspable edges of times measurable units where definition dissolves, clarity disintegrates, and vision becomes the trickster.”

The format of these works challenges traditional modes of reading a photograph as each work is unique and not reproducible.

David Burrows will be staging a solo exhibition at Latrobe Regional Gallery in 2022.