Chris Clarke
Supplement
31 Temple Street, Bethnal Green
London E2 6QQ

12th Sept – 4th Oct 2009

For its fifth exhibition of 2009 Supplement presents work by Chris Clarke.

Clarke’s work explores ideas surrounding film and the production of images. In his work filmic techniques are used to explore specific aesthetic and conceptual aspects of filmmaking. The works seek to aestheticise the production processes of film and in doing this look at the way images are produced and given meaning in the world. This lends an interesting self-referential quality to the work in that they become films about being films, subject and object are intertwined within the pieces.

Reunion (2008) is a Super 8mm film projection of the first 10 seconds of Led Zepplin’s 2007 reunion concert that has been re-filmed from Youtube. In the gallery space the film is played backwards on a projector made in the same year the band formed. This process of translation from digital to Super 8 film is inverted in Amateur (2009), which is shot on film and transferred to a digital projection. The film depicts the upgrade of the hardrive of a Macbook Pro, focusing on enigmatic details of the process and presenting itself as curious fetishisation of technology. The film is played from the removed harddrive.

On or after 24.04.09 (2009) uses a print of a single frame furtively removed from an original 1985 cinema release print of Back to The Future. The print depicting Marty McFly in his moment of realization was sent by post to 10 people including an artist’s proof to the artist, which is exhibited in the show.

The works in the exhibition use specific conceptual strategies to underpin a more complex, elliptic exploration of the terms through which meaning is produced through the conditions of medium.