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For
something to exist in space it must first move through time.
Lily Hibberd's work is concerned with the dynamics and interplay
of spatial and temporal relations and the capacity of paint
to engage as cinema does with psychological space. Inspired
by Alfred Hitchcock's film Rebecca, Hibberd's work Approach
2001 is based on the final dramatic sequence when the male
protagonist Maxim approaches his burining mansion estate. Approach
comprises seven panels depicting a house burning in the distance.
With the movement across each panel the house becomes closer
and more finite in its definition. The pictorial size of the
subject, however, remains the same even though the panels dramatically
decrease in size so that the shifts across them can be read
metaphorically like a lens of a camera periodically tightening
its focus: each movement depicts a change in time and spatial
orientation. Essay for this exhibition |
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