Lucida TINTYPE, London

16 Sept – 22 Oct

Preview: Thurs 15 Sept 6.30 – 8.30pm Weaving together extraordinary images, bio-medical research, and individual testimonies, Suki Chan’s new interactive three-screen installation Lucida, explores the curious, complex relationship between the human eye, vision and the brain. Lucida is a visceral, visual journey in which Chan’s camera is constantly on the move, restlessly travelling through spaces that lead us, like a thread through a maze, into the heart of her subject. Partially filmed in the University of London’s Senate House, the fluid tracking shots through library spaces and boiler rooms suggest a visual analogy for the interior structures of our eyes and brains. The work has a haunting soundtrack composed by Dominik Scherrer, the winner of the 2014 Ivor Novello Award.



Lucida is a touring exhibition that has its first iteration at Tintype and will later be shown at the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art in association with the University of Salford Art Collection in Manchester, and Asia House, London – both in 2017, with an event at Aspex in Portsmouth this November. Lucida is supported by the Wellcome Trust Small Arts Awards, University of Salford Art Collection and Arts Council England. The project was commissioned by the University of Salford Art Collection and the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art (CFCCA) in partnership with the Centre for the Study of the Senses, University of London and Tintype. A publication accompanies the exhibition with essays by Dr Marius Kwint, Reader in Visual Culture, University of Portsmouth; Dr Richard Wingate, Head of Anatomy, King’s College London; and Gareth Evans, Film Curator, Whitechapel Gallery.



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