Beneath The Surface
Cob Studio, London, 2010.
This exhibition acts as an animate sketchbook, showcasing ideas and recent works which explore various modes of representation and in particular different strategies of presentation. Manipulating experience and encounter, Ross-Southall confronts the viewer’s corporeal and social relationships, challenging expectations and stock perceptions. Phenomenology, the uncanny and the notion of the abject are important to his work as he seeks to force the viewer to forge new relations to their surroundings, be this the everyday and the mundane or the overwhelming and unexplained. His use of media is varied although the relationship between audio and visual is often exploited, audio being used both in complimentary terms but also as a device to frustrate and upset convention.
Self-Effacement I, 2010
Self-Effacement II, 2010
Self-Effacement I & II, 2010, Installation View, C-Type Print on Fuji Crystal Archive, Mounted in box frames 420 x 594 x 200mm
Empirical Provocations, 2010, Installation view, 72 Colour Slides, 72 Black and White Negative Slides, 2 Slide Projectors, chain, PVC Rear Projection Screen mounted in box frame, dimensions variable
Empirical Provocations, 2010, Stills
Self-Effacement II (Bonny Street), 2010. Installation View. DVD loop, projection, corrugated iron shutter, dimensions variable.
Self-Effacement II (Bonny Street) 2010, Video still Digital Video, Loop
Being Silent Isn’t Strong, 2010, Installation view, 4 x Suspended CRT-TV’s, Chain, Projection, Aluminium Shutter, Dimensions variable
Being Silent Isn’t Strong, 2010, Installation view DVD loop, chain, wood, CRT-TVs, mirror, dimensions variable.
Being Silent Isn’t Strong, 2010, Installation view DVD loop, chain, wood, CRT-TVs, mirror, dimensions variable.