In the windows of S12 you can see the work WHITE OUT by Jeremy Welsh initially made for the exhibition “Dream vs. Reality” at Gallery F15, Jeløy, in 2002 and has since been included in several exhibitions, including “Where Am I Now” at the Museum for Contemporary Art in Oslo (2004).
In the catalogue for the exhibition, Andrea Krognes writes: “the video shows the reflecting glass and mirrored surfaces of New York’s mid-town district. We see people moving in front of, between, or behind these dazzling architectonic shells. The human figures lose something of their defining contours and melt and multiply into psychedelic ornaments. It is as if they were losing their bodily integration and slowly melting away. This fragmentation, distortion, multiplication, and disarrangement of people and space negates the idea of bounded or spatial anchored identity. These pictures radiate the power of the drifting and impenetrably flat and glossy images of our society of spectacle, in which no area of experience remains untouched by the capitalist process of commodification, the accelerated production and consumption of gadgets, entertainment and lifestyles.”
Jeremy Welsh is a visual artist working in a range of different media like video, sound performance, photography and installations. He is a professor and currently the Dean of Department of Fine Art at Bergen Academy of Art and Design.
