The Future Is a White Sky

The Future Is A White Sky

The Future Is A White Sky from Christy Walsh on Vimeo.

The Ashes of Possibility

The Ashes of Possibility from Christy Walsh on Vimeo.

Isolation

Isolation from Christy Walsh on Vimeo.

The Nature of Perfect Freedom

The Nature of Perfect Freedom from Christy Walsh on Vimeo.

At once a reminiscence, a day-dream and a self-portrait, The Future Is A White Sky is a body of
work that consists of photographs and videos which are comprised of still and moving images made between 1992 – 2014 in the United States and South Korea.

The very oldest of the source images originates from still photographs shot on film and printed in a darkroom. VHS tape and Super-8 film are the first kinetic media. The images are digitally processed and combined with other images to create densely layered photographs and intricately edited videos. The aim is to see everything at once; the past, the present, the internal and the environmental.

The videos are built around solo choreographies which were recorded both in rehearsal and in site-specific performances. Since the images contain self-portraits created over the course of many years, the work becomes, in addition to being a time-based exploration of our experience of time, a dynamic mirror. In this sometimes confusing and startling self-examination, one finds a path to the metaphysical notion of the self as the self exists for itself and for others, and how the perceptions of ourselves that we create through an external lens, shape our identities and our sense of what is possible.

Isolation was screened in numerous countries as part of Allison Williams’s Human Emotions Project in 2008-2010, and The Nature of Perfect Freedom was exhibited at theAIVFF FESTIVAL, in Cannes, and Movies By Movers, in the US.

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