Dynamic new media works by Tomiko Jones and Margot Quan Knight will be added to e4c’s rotation beginning April 1
Tomiko Jones
Across Land and Sky
There Are Some Things You Cannot Forget
Tomiko Jones is a Seattle-based photographer, educator and independent curator. Her videos articulate small gestures performed within the landscape. Jones writes “Insects stand-in for human activity in frenzied pursuit, while a moth in a decrepit state tries to free itself from the last thread of a spider web’s hold. Set against the sky above, and the land below, these videos ruminate on a simple existence.”
There Are Some Things You Cannot Forget was created during a residency at The Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France. It was originally shown as an outdoor installation at Theâtré de Mer on the Mediterranean Sea.
Margot Quan Knight
Sur face (Mirrors)
Sur face (Water)
Sur face (Paper)
Sur face (Fog)
Based in Seattle, Knight has exhibited photographic, video and installation work extensively throughout the United States and internationally. Interacting with everyday materials like water, paper, and glass, Knight drinks her own reflection, appears fleetingly on bubbles, and “prints” an image of her face on a window using the natural grease of her skin. Knight writes “I was thinking about two things: the relationship between an image and the object in the world that it is “of” (in this case my face), and the relationship between an image and the surface on which it appears. That surface, so necessary for the image’s existence, seems both fragile and impenetrable, a barrier and an opportunity.”
Sur face was developed during a residency at 911 Seattle Media Arts Center. Also opening on April 1, 2010, Knight will be exhibiting new work at Seattle’s James Harris Gallery related to her interest in reflection.
© 2010 Tomiko Jones, Across Land and Sky, video still
© 2009 Margot Quan Knight, Sur face (Bubbles), video still
