Beginning to Slip - Mimi Hope and Ben Galyas @ Roland Ross
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In the exhibition Beginning to Slip, Mimi Hope and Ben Galyas’ digitised 35mm film is being screened, not in the pristine gallery, but outside in the shed. The wooden lean-too structure imparts a decidedly intimate setting, wherein any visitor must acclimatise to the mould and spiders filling the rafters; and take in the walls punctuated by dispersed cracks of light. This consequential ambience and strange territory go some way to feeling like an act of solidarity with the origination and temporary staging of the free parties of which the collected works of the exhibition take inspiration from; the liberation of private space, for a brief period of time, to be returned after the event, forever altered. The mechanic abruptness that comes from working with analogue film (adjusted to fit into a digital age) lends a romantic authenticity to the artists’ surveying of the land’s genealogies; appearing as a considered reminiscence,
Beginning to Slip - Mimi Hope and Ben Galyas @ Roland Ross
Beginning to Slip - Mimi Hope and Ben Galyas…
Beginning to Slip - Mimi Hope and Ben Galyas @ Roland Ross
In the exhibition Beginning to Slip, Mimi Hope and Ben Galyas’ digitised 35mm film is being screened, not in the pristine gallery, but outside in the shed. The wooden lean-too structure imparts a decidedly intimate setting, wherein any visitor must acclimatise to the mould and spiders filling the rafters; and take in the walls punctuated by dispersed cracks of light. This consequential ambience and strange territory go some way to feeling like an act of solidarity with the origination and temporary staging of the free parties of which the collected works of the exhibition take inspiration from; the liberation of private space, for a brief period of time, to be returned after the event, forever altered. The mechanic abruptness that comes from working with analogue film (adjusted to fit into a digital age) lends a romantic authenticity to the artists’ surveying of the land’s genealogies; appearing as a considered reminiscence,