Gibson + Recoder Artist Talk: Perforated Light

212 E 33rd St,Garden City ID 83714

06 August, 2022

Description

Gallery hours 11am -2pm, with an art talk at 2pm. Both Surel's Place and an installation in The GreenBox will be open. New York based artists Sandra Gibson + Luis Recoder responded to the surrounding environment and specific studio space at Surel's Place to generate a new body of work that continues their ongoing investigations into the enchanted art of the camera obscura. The classic camera obscura (Latin for 'dark chamber') is a centuries-old technique consisting simply of a darkened space with a small aperture that admits natural light and projects live moving images of the immediate surroundings. Gibson + Recoder’s camera obscura installations reimagine the technique as a proto-cinematic form, which in turn entails a radical rethinking of the nature of cinema as a simultaneously ancient and modern art. Sculpting the natural light entering the perforated spaces of their installations, Gibson + Recoder produce images that are by turns abstract and concrete, minimal and immersive, obscure and distinct.