“Large Formats” Patricia Conde Galeria, Mexico City
individually hand cut film sprockets strung on beadalon, 30 feet or 9 meters
By removing these film sprockets from their accompanying images, they take on an intrigue all their own, free from the substantive elements that once made them discriminatory. Flores Ansell has threaded these sprockets into a single corded structure to create overlapping strands of time. These timeline strands give deference to the history of the artform: the ages of film, the evolution of the process, and the shift in photography. Sprockets from the 50’s are adjacent to ones from the 70’s, evoking the nonlinear characteristics of time as both a process and a story. These sprockets, as objects in time, amass to bring these histories to life.
August 2018
