HYPNOTIC large-scale video projections fusing a range of techniques and digital special effects form Fine Lines , an exhibition by London-based artist, Maria Marshall, at Leigh's Turnpike Gallery.
Marshall explores the roles of mother and artist in three recent videos.
When Are We There? (2000) shows a camera slowly wind its way along dimly lit corridors to arrive in a room where Marshall herself stands. As the camera approaches it rises up her body and focuses on her skin which subtly begins to change.
President Bill Clinton, Memphis, November 13, 1993 (2000), features the artist's two children in an unfurnished, sun drenched room. The children repeatedly enter the room and unwrap presents, while off screen, one of them reads excerpts from a Clinton speech.
Marshall's new work Cyclops (2001-2002), uses a computerised crane to control a 35 mm camera. The screen is split. On one side a young child stands alone in an empty room. On the other side the mother of a child stands in a similar lonely space.
The exhibition at the Turnpike runs from September 21 to November 9.
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