Solo exhibition by Lynn Loo. From October 17th to November 3rd 2024.
Film performance programme. Sat 2nd November. 7:30 – 9pm.
16mm cameraless film workshop. Sat 19 October. 2pm – 5pm.
Poetry in Patterns is an exhibition that explores unusual forms of moving-image using a combination of systems and chance methods. Such active experimentation with materials leads to unintentional outcomes that resist explicit meanings and invite interpretation.
The two installations in the Objectifs Lower Galleries, a video work and a looped 16mm projection, take inspiration from patterns found in nature, in our daily lives, and within the filmmaking process itself. What links the works is a fascination for movement, light and pattern that the artist observes, records and organises, leaving interpretation open to the viewer.
In addition to the gallery installations there will be an evening of film projection performances, and a 16mm film workshop.
Lynn Loo grew up in Singapore and initially taught piano before moving to the U.S.A. to study film making and then to England for an MA in film archiving. She now works as a film conservator at the British Film Institute.
Her film practice has been inspired by the poetic cinema of North American experimental film and by the material processes and expanded cinema of European artists that she later encountered in England. She works in 16mm film, usually in performance or installation, as well as digital video for single screen, sometimes combining the two. This exhibition reflects the range of her practice.
CONVERSATIONS cyclical version
2024 16mm and digital video 13 minutes
A video collage of images and sounds assembled from various phases of my life. The search for patterns is both within the materials used and in the ways I have combined them – and it extends to the mind of the viewer.
Making the film involved a kind of conversation between these recordings – and myself. Without any preconceived ideas, I worked on the material using a similar approach to a fine artist.
It is innate in human nature to find meanings in things and I anticipate that the work will be interpreted in a variety of ways.
LOOPS & LINES
2024 16mm film and digital video
An installation that combines video projection in a shifting relationship with two 16mm film loops threaded through a single projector. The ease by which digital technology records images of the natural world is in contrast to the immediacy of lines scratched by hand directly into raw film and animated by the projector. The lines were carved into the emulsion of the film as straight as I could draw them, but when magnified through the projector lens they are clearly not straight.
This exhibition is supported by
National Arts Council Singapore and
Objectifs Centre of Photography and Film.