Being Here is a painting and video installation that explores
the intersection between digital processes and the traditions of painting.
The work includes
video, and a series of experimental paintings on canvas and photographic work created
from the moving images. The sometimes obscure though often recognisable images
that capture ‘a moment in time’ stand alongside the moving images to provide a
context.
Oram’s work reflects
on our experience of being in the world and the passage of time, where the
moving image re-creates an experience of ‘being there’ similar to our consciousness.
Leszek Kolakowski ‘s description of consciousness relates to this process when
he states that;
‘I am new at every moment but, by including the whole
of my past in my present, I remain the same person.’
Her process
investigates the ephemeral nature of video, and the random extraction of
snapshots of movement and change that capture the process itself.
The fluid nature
of the work itself and the medium is reflected in Henri Bergson’s discussion of
time and consciousness when he comments that;
‘It is not the snapshots that are real, it’s the
flux, the continuity of transition and change itself that are real.’
Oram intends to draw
the audience into the work to reflect on how much we are like our own world, at
the same time solid and liquid, and ready to change or dissolve at any moment.
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| Black Monitor |
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| Crackle |
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| Green Bubble |
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| Spark |
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| Ellipse |
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| Spark & Sooty |
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| Green Bubble, Mercury Bubbles 1,2,3 |
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| Installation Shot |
