Sam Falls

26 Jun-10 Aug 2014

Overview

Sam Falls applies his multidisciplinary background to a practice exploring the time-based possibilities of photography, sculpture, painting and video. The centre-pieces of his exhibition in London are large-scale sculptures in copper, marble and powder coated aluminium which, while they may appear colourful, crisp and monumental, contain the potential for aging. Alongside will be presented five video works from the Final Forever series. For each work the artist appropriates one of Andrei Tarkovsky’s famously lingering shots and couples it with a section of a song by the Velvet Underground. Both the footage and the audio track are seamlessly and endlessly looped, going nowhere, but full of tension. In the month prior to his exhibition, Sam Falls will be participating in Zabludowicz Collection’s 2014 residency programme on the Finnish island of Sarvisalo. Here he will continue his series of works in which large expanses of hand-dyed fabric are exposed to the natural elements, creating images that are both abstract and indexical, representative of a specific environment and duration.