GALLERY I & II

DARIA MARTIN
MAN AND MASK

6 August - 24 September 2005
The Collective have commissioned international artist Daria Martin to produce her first solo exhibition in Scotland. The exhibition will feature the premiere of a new 16mm film Man and Mask, co-commissioned by Collective Gallery (Edinburgh), Lux (London) and Spacex Gallery (Exeter).
This short film will reflect on the present state of cinema as -celluloid. Resisting the advances of digitized media, Man and Mask will celebrate, in a playful way, the medium of film itself: its material magic.
Man and Mask continues Daria Martin's investigations into the aspirations and limitations of modern ideals. By drawing a parallel between celluloid film and masks made with 'primitive' means, the film draws attention to two mediums on the edge of becoming outmoded yet with undeniable and enduring appeal. Man and Mask asks questions, in an entertaining way, about film's qualities: its physicality, its trickery, its paradoxical opacity and transparency. The work oscillates between artifice and acting, for example, the physical, tangible masks within the film are just one element of a multifarious literal and metaphorical 'masking' and unmasking, layering and stripping away.

PROJECT ROOM
KATE OWENS
HERO OF THE TWO WORLDS
The figure that brought unification to Italy was also commemorated in Britain by a foodstuff commonly known as dead fly biscuit. Using the medieval technique of brass rubbing, other favourites from the family assortment are considered and recorded in a nostalgic homage to the art of the biscuit maker. See also OFF-SITE PROJECTS.