Still Installation at YSP
by Jem Finer
Jem Finer's Still is a large scale projection that explores invisible, incessant life-infusing nature.
Finer, the founder and now an ex-bandmember of The Pogues, is now a well-established multimedia artist. For Still, he used a solar-powered camera to continuously record the slow but constant seasonal changes in a forest in Kent, over a year-long timespan.
The resulting installation, Still, can be experienced in the quiet space of the Yorkshire Sculpture Park chapel, beginning tomorrow. The location near Leeds, UK, enhances the sensation of being immersed in a timeless atmosphere.
Still is not a proper video, as Finer edited the 18,000 stills recorded. The result is a work between a video and photography, whereby the viewer can perceive the constant transitional condition of the cosmos. No image is the same and stillness is just a deceiving concept.
The work has been commissioned by Stour Valley Arts and is on show at YSP from 11 Februrary until 7 May.
Images courtesy of YSP.
Yorkshire Sculpture Park
West Bretton
Wakefield WF4 4LG, UK
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