Mark Boot / Chromophilia
Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2010 - Tue, 30 Nov 2010
Venue: Phoenix
Chromophilia 2009
Fluorobox 1 2010
Screen Lounge
Mon 1 Nov – Tue 30 Nov
Phoenix Square are pleased to premiere 'Chromophilia', a video work that has been developed from observing a group of small fluorescent sculptures in an ultra-violet space, alongside Fluorobox 1, a sculpture that exists within its own ultra-violet environment.
'Chromophilia' starts with a stop frame animation of three fluorescent sculptures rotating and colliding. At this point it is unclear as to whether we are watching digitally constructed objects or real 3D objects, but we are aware that these objects exist in space, albeit one of ambiguous scale, and that their colour and movement has a hypnotic attraction. As the camera zooms into a collision between two of the sculptures, they come to rest and we see that these objects are indeed real.
The emphasis then shifts to colour and tone as the same clip is pixelated and repeated until we have two adjacent squares of changing colour. Vivid colour and movement are transformed into a kaleidoscopic sequence of grids with complex colour relationships that gradually simplify to hypnotic modulation of two adjacent colours.
"Whilst making 'Chromophilia' I was very aware of the fact that the pay off for an abundance of digital information in our culture, particularly with respect to music and images, was that this data would come in a compressed form and therefore be a reduction in the original quality. I became concerned that for most people it was acceptable to trade quality for quantity.
As a reaction to this I used a finite amount of data – the original clip - and used pixelation, a process of digital of simplification to create a complex sequence of colour relationships." Mark Boot
Mark is also exhibiting in a group show 'Chromophilia' at the Pedestrian Gallery, Rutland Street from Fri 19 Nov to Tue 30 Nov.
