LORRAINE NEESON

ARTIST STATEMENT

Lorraine Neeson works with lens based media, video installation, sound and architectural intervention to explore themes such as the Uncanny in Architecture, the relationship between light and darkness, the visible and the invisible, while challenging the viewer’s perception and experience of space–time parameters within these contexts.  Physical and psychological navigation of space is manipulated through intervention and exploitation within the architectural, photographic, projected and filmic frame.  The interaction between anticipation, expectation and perception is explored.  The experience is heightened and enhanced by such factors as the treatment of light and darkness, the utilization of sound or lack thereof and the manipulation of hidden and undisclosed information.  Inherent in the exploration, is the potential for the work to extend beyond the parameters of the projected, photographic and architectural frame and outside the realm of the visible, while simultaneously creating a sense of destabilization and disorientation within the environment.   A fundamental theme is the literal, metaphorical and paradoxical treatment of light and darkness and the simultaneous representation of conflicting states of revelation and obliteration.

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