Some near distance

»What distinguishes Lewis' films is that they radically redefine the importance of the image we are seeing: it occupies the centre of our attention, of our gaze and, at the same time, provides a magnificent opportunity to explore wider terrain of which it forms only a part-. This fragment then becomes a substantive object for the investigation of the situation it is part of, and of the social and cultural context within which the image falls. The cinematic construction of these films emerges from the camera?s ability to produce a number of points of view, to give shape top what we are seeing through the very personal way the image moulds in with the camera's perspective and, later, through what happens on the editing desk. The exclusion of sound bears this out.« (Chus Martínez)

Sala de Exposiciones Rekalde Erakustaretoa (10. Juli - 28. Sept. 2003); mit Texten von Chus Martínez, Jan Verwoert und Mark Lewis (baskisch/katalanisch/englisch)