Distortion May Vary | Elise Beutner and Daniel Rode at Platform Arts, Belfast

07/03/2019 – 29/03/2019 – All Day
Platform Arts, 1 Queen Street,, Belfast
Opening: Thursday 7 March 2019 The conjoined exhibition DISTORTION MAY VARY confronts big scale banners of text-based work with the moving images of video installations. Although they oppose in aesthetic dynamics, both positions have a common aspect: this derives from a second conceptual/mental space rather than from physical surface. The moving image is immediate, its perception direct. The distortion happens elsewhere, through cutting, collaging and by means of presentation. Textwork – letters – by nature, have to be cognitively processed to bear meaning. Ripped from their origin, they become abstract, hard to read, rather aesthetically than functional. So in each…
Distortion May Vary | Elise Beutner and Daniel Rode at Platform Arts, Belfast