Individual Residencies
2019 | Richard Ashrowan
Richard is a moving image artist and independent film curator, working with video and 16mm film, creating short single channel films, immersive video installations and live multi- projector performance experiments. His work is concerned with light and luminosity, referring to the language of early light metaphysics and alchemical processes.
Landscape and place, coupled with a personal sense of deep presence, often form the starting point for his visual material. It is the sense of disappearing, vanishing, emerging and appearing that Richard interrogated in Collemacchia, using both writing and 16mm film. These interests coincide with an investigation into the idea of the trace (Derrida), of the unknowability and contingency of language as attempts at fixing things within linguistic or pictorial meaning. What might a trace be? What might it look like on a film? How might I write myself as a trace, a smudge, something indistinct and unknowable? What might emerge from this time spent thinking into the notion of my own disappearance?