Circumstances of Avertion
A couple of weeks ago there was a great show at Bristol Diving School by Robert Prideaux and Ruaidhri Ryan . The work mostly consisted of a large video installation, rather than having a stab at some inadequite wordliness.. there was an pretty interesting accompanying text by bristol based sculptor Charles Thorburn : poster design by Lloyd Parker The nature of the gaze is not a simple one. The world of moving image has developed countless methods of enticing us to fix ours for a few moments; to be informed, compelled, or entertained. In Circumstances of Avertion Robert Prideaux & Ruaidhri Ryan address the act of averting ones gaze, and how this is handled as a fundamental component of our experience of film and documentary. We are often presented with documentary, and moments in cinema, that we are conditioned to accept as truth. David Attenborough doesn't just tell us what life is really like in the jungle, he shows us. Rather than setting out to interrogate their ...