x (trace): studies for a self-portrait
Apr 15– Apr 24
Phillip Rose

Presented as part of the 17th annual Images Festival,
April 15 - 24, 2004. For more information: www.imagesfestival.com







Phillip Rose, detail from (x)trace: studies for a self-portrait

x (trace), studies for a self-portrait is a "motion painting", a continuous loop installation which takes Francis Bacon’s self-portraits as the starting point for a series of hand-processed film experiments resulting in a triptych "self-portrait in time" full of distortions, transformations, graphic patterns, textures, colours and intensities of light - a lyrical, sensual piece with "painterly" and "sculptural" qualities moving through staccato and fluid passages which "signify how representation has proved itself to be a remarkably elastic category; more open than closed, complex and overfull of phantasmic residues."*

*from Cindy Stelmackowich’s program notes for Gallery 101’s Fluid show

Philip Rose is an Ottawa-based film/video maker and visual artist. His long-time interest in film and video has resulted in collaborative performances, installation and single channel work, as well being active in Ottawa’s Available Light Screening Collective. His work has shown in Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal and Hamilton.