Whether working with video, photographs or drawings, the work of Toronto-based artist Jean-Paul Kelly (b. 1977) explores the relationship between “materiality and perception”. Kelly poses questions about the limits of representation by examining complex associations between found photographs, videos, and sounds from documentaries, photojournalism, and online media streams.
At LUX, Kelly will present his most recent works The Innocents (2014, UK premiere), Movement in Squares (2013) and Figure-ground (2013), which will be screened in dialogue with a selection of films and videos from the LUX collection by artists such as Norman McLaren, Lewis Klahr, Steve Reinke and James Richards. The screening will be followed by a conversation between Kelly and Erika Balsom.
Programme
Figure-ground by Jean-Paul Kelly, 2013, digital video, 5min
Synchromy by Norman McLaren, 1979, 16mm, 7 min
Pony Glass by Lewis Klahr, 1997, 16mm, 15min
Movement in Squares by Jean-Paul Kelly, 2013, digital video,13min
Regarding the Pain of Susan Sontag (Notes on Camp) by Steve Reinke, 2006, video, 4min
Misty Boundaries Fades and Disolves by James Richards, 2009, digital video, 4min
The Innocents by Jean-Paul Kelly, 2014, digital video, 13min