Shop Window
Flickering Matter
Philippe Blanchard
October 1, 2022 – October 1, 2022
Nuit Blanche at 401 Richmond Street West
Open Studio, Suite #104
Saturday, October 1, 2022
On display from sunset to sunrise (7:00 pm – 7:00 am)
Installation of modular screenprints on wood, knit and tufted cotton (originally created in 2019)
Thinking through Soviet filmmaker and theorist Sergei Eisenstein’s reflections on animation as a plasmatic medium, one that is forever unstable and with the “ability to dynamically assume any form”, while also considering the utopian, immersive, Expanded Cinema experiments of the 1960s (Stan Vanderbeek, in particular), Philippe Blanchard’s light installations play with interference between the chromatic properties of pigment (printed ink, dyed yarn) and wavelengths of coloured light to produce immersive, expanded animations. Through this work, what is material seems unstable, a pulsating and shimmering reflection of itself, whereby light becomes matter and matter becomes animated.
Please note that this is a window installation and the studio and galleries will be closed during the event. The installation will be visible to the public through Open Studio’s Shop window. This installation involves flashing lights.