Things That Had Stories Rubbed Out

This film installation explores concepts of perception and vision and features a variety of surfaces that could potentially be used as a projection screen.

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Experimenting with a new studio-based process, Lucas worked closely with artist Jo Addison to build a collection of photographs of objects that could be seen as screens or blank spaces. The images were used as a starting point for filming torch-lit visual dialogues with a group of artists. The film uses raw and tentative footage from these shared moments of looking, in which glimpses and fragments of connection may be all that is discernable.

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Things That Had Stories Rubbed Out was the inspiration for the Whitstable Biennale 2010 education programme . The work was sited at Clifton Road in Whitstable during the festival, in a garden shed. Critic for the Independent, Waldemar Januszczak said “looking through the shed window, you see a moving torchlight picking out some unlikely sights: buildings, faces, cities. Its as if someone with a torch had entered a dark cave and found it filled with the ruins of a lost modern civilisation “.