Nativity
Showing of the fabulous “Nativity” at the National Gallery, Martha Fiennes's film which was featured in the video for the recent exhibition about architecture in Renaissance paintings. I could have watched this for hours. The background, architecture, figures and sound all self-generate themselves continuously so the film has no set length and no specific narrative. However your head starts to make up narratives. I found these were often set by the music and in my case at one point the sky went dark, the architecture changed and “Silent Night” played and I found it so moving, and yet it wasn’t meant. The work had the same effect on my as Anthony Gormley’s “Field” works which have hundreds of small figures in a defined space. I found both works hard to walk away from because of the strong sense them build up that the work will still exist when you are not there and you feel a bit like you are deserting it! I want to see more using this SLOimage technology it was r...