Collin Snapp
Monday, 3 February 2014
Work from his oeuvre
“In a world where technology relegates us to the status of objects observers observed where ordinary experience is so infiltrated with media isolating organic life moments becomes on one hand a keepsake and on the other hand the spectacle of visibility of growth something utterly distanced from tory involment It has been said that one of the functions of art is to critically disrupt the seeming transparency between viewers and objects viewed and Colin Snapp with his series called tc Studies wants to question whether images can preserve the vital presence of what they necessarily represent
These images are derived from video footage of various plant species The artist produced these works by photographing the lcd screen (view finder) of his video camera and printing the image of the 3inch screen at a significantly magnified proportion This process came about as a by product from the Panorama project in which Colin Snapp spent a month filming within national parks Much of the footage ended up being of ors experiencing these national parks through their cameras In a sense the view finder has become a sort of third eye and within these natural landscapes becomes very apparent What might otherwise be doentary realism plain and simple translates into commentary on the contemporary technologies by which we take in the world thus labeling it and reducing it to the status of a commodity”