Roy Efrat and Catrin Webster: Passing

Passing
Roy Efrat and Catrin Webster

Artlacuna is pleased to present a collaborative installation between Roy Efrat (Israel/Berlin) and Catrin Webster (Wales). Passing is a video painting installation, where choreography and narrative combine through projection and oil painting. A dialogue that develops between movement and stasis.

Ideas are glimpsed as they pass, like clouds in a fragmented sky, Immigration Offices, London, Sheffield, Croydon.

In this installation, painting and projected light combine to develop new potentials for change, for narrative, for the passing of people, stories, music and birds.

The skies gathered here are the place of birds. Connecting Egypt to the UK – from Africa to Aberdovey; or from Canada to Camden – the sky is a vast space enacted through migratory flight. Thousands of birds on the British Isles, return annually on summer or winter migratory patterns, never fixed to one place but living in transit across huge expanses of space, in a perpetual state of passing. Such mobility is essential to life.

In literature, both The Raven and The pigeon represent perhaps, the cycle of life passing; of grief and existential angst. Of wanderers through the city, performing our identities, our gender, our sexuality and our fleeting lives.

The appearance of birds, the spectacle of plumage and activation of still space, their miraculous flight, the symbolism which global cultures associate to them, make watching birds, much like Efrat and Webster’s installation, a mesmeric occupation.