Russell Chater

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Trinity/Everything Must Go 2008
Sculpture/Installation 195x135cm
Glazed units, U.V light, U.V paint
This page features a mix of works from my back catalogue. The text below briefly describes the key concerns of the work:

1) Whitewashed windows speak of the ever-changing fa�ade of the city, whilst the context of the crypt (the site the work was initially made for) prompts wider readings around transience. The religious triptych contributes to both the content and formal considerations of the work.

2&3) Installations with polystyrene packaging attempt to increase the mysterious and seductive readings of the material � to reveal 'alien' craft and landscapes. Through simple transformation with light, the sculptural and translucent qualities of the packaging are highlighted, whilst their functional forms become bizarre and ambiguous in the absence of the product they are designed to protect. A tension is created � the works simultaneously seductive and throwaway.

4) Photocopy drawings/collages of polystyrene packaging afford a cheap, �low-tech� means of generating images that suits both the nature of the polystyrene and, more often than not, my approach in general. Resulting works evoke grainy, pixellated, satellite-like images of alien forms.

5) By removing the inner workings of old computer monitors, ambiguous yet evocative spaces are revealed - existing beyond the screen. Through simple experimentation with lenses, scale and lighting, the theatricality and architectural qualities of these spaces are heightened and the resulting projected images present the viewer with a space made distant and alien.

6) The lens of the camera both reveals and records itself as a �void� like point � plotting and repeating through the vacuous matrix of a simple mirrored box. Simultaneously closed and self-reflecting; expansive and evocative, the image is generated through the click of the camera.

7) The window is a grid to plot the infinite and ever-changing sky: a poetic and futile endeavour.

8) Curtains hang outside their windows and challenge definitions of inside and outside.



Russell Chater
London
United Kingdom
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