Lindsay Seers : Monocular4

27 Sep-1 Dec 2013

Overview

Monocular4 is an intimate installation, first exhibited in Lofoten in northern Norway that features a tin hut re-situated in the gallery space. Within the structure is embedded a film work by Seers. The narrator of the projected film is a Norwegian/English man who has a rare condition called genetic mosaicism, caused by the fusion of two fertilized eggs at a very early stage of gestation in the womb. A sign of this condition is heterochromia – the possessing of eyes of two different colours – one of which is derived from the absorbed 'twin'. What we hear in the surround sound track is the medium of film/sound talking to us as if it has become a man – it speaks of its haunted longing to represent.