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Artist Statement
Situated somewhere between early photography, 60’s cinema and fictional home movies, the films present simultaneity, shifting physical spaces and expanded notions of time. Doubling often occurs in imagery and form, interwoven with erasure and blankness. The slowness and stillness insistent in the films mark the passage of time through subtle movements, as drawing compresses time onto graphite surfaces.
The work is often based on historical photographs, sites of ruin and layered history. The 16mm projected films and installations echo early American tintypes and home movies from the 60’s and 70’s. Large-scale sculptures in the form of lockets display films as moving daguerrotpyes or tintypes whose sitters pose very still for the long shutter of the camera. The work often displays two subjectivities, simultaneous and whole—opening up time and space to its alternates.
Situated somewhere between early photography, 60’s cinema and fictional home movies, the films present simultaneity, shifting physical spaces and expanded notions of time. Doubling often occurs in imagery and form, interwoven with erasure and blankness. The slowness and stillness insistent in the films mark the passage of time through subtle movements, as drawing compresses time onto graphite surfaces.
The work is often based on historical photographs, sites of ruin and layered history. The 16mm projected films and installations echo early American tintypes and home movies from the 60’s and 70’s. Large-scale sculptures in the form of lockets display films as moving daguerrotpyes or tintypes whose sitters pose very still for the long shutter of the camera. The work often displays two subjectivities, simultaneous and whole—opening up time and space to its alternates.
CV
Victoria Fu (b. Los Angeles) received her BA in Art from Stanford and MFA from CalArts. Her film and video installations have been exhibited at De Appel in Amsterdam, Sala Rekalde in Bilbao, Savannah College of Art, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, REDCAT at Walt Disney Hall in Los Angeles, Seoul National University in Korea, El Museo de la Ciudad in Quito, Frederieke Taylor Gallery and CRG Gallery in New York, Fundación Sa Nostra in Palma de Mallorca, Ballhaus Ost and General Public in Berlin. Recipient of a Borchard Foundation Fellowship and an Art Matters Foundation Grant, she has also worked on publications for the Centre Pompidou, Musée d’Orsay, USC Fisher Gallery, Otis College of Art+Design and Wildenstein Research Institute. She was a 2006 participant of the Whitney Independent Study Program and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and was Artist-in-Residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in 2007. Co-founder of the film/video organization, ART OFFICE, she lives and works in Brooklyn.
Victoria Fu (b. Los Angeles) received her BA in Art from Stanford and MFA from CalArts. Her film and video installations have been exhibited at De Appel in Amsterdam, Sala Rekalde in Bilbao, Savannah College of Art, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, REDCAT at Walt Disney Hall in Los Angeles, Seoul National University in Korea, El Museo de la Ciudad in Quito, Frederieke Taylor Gallery and CRG Gallery in New York, Fundación Sa Nostra in Palma de Mallorca, Ballhaus Ost and General Public in Berlin. Recipient of a Borchard Foundation Fellowship and an Art Matters Foundation Grant, she has also worked on publications for the Centre Pompidou, Musée d’Orsay, USC Fisher Gallery, Otis College of Art+Design and Wildenstein Research Institute. She was a 2006 participant of the Whitney Independent Study Program and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and was Artist-in-Residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in 2007. Co-founder of the film/video organization, ART OFFICE, she lives and works in Brooklyn.
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