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in 16mm film, and later converted into digital, it
consists of four asynchronous projections (each
about an hour long), totalling a four-hour long
film. The projections are playing simultaneously
and on loop, with no beginning or end. There is
no particular narrative structure and any linearity
is deliberately undone, taking us on an associative
journey that is constantly altered and recombined
by the action of chance, time and the viewer’s
gaze.
The mesmerising soundtrack is composed by
British sound-artists Kelly Jayne Jones and Pas-
cal Nichols, also known as PartWild HorsesMane
On Both Sides. The artists parallel the methods
used in the construction of the film, by piecing to-
gether sounds recorded on set with samples they
produced using instruments from various eras as
well as using field recordings from the set.
The symbolic and formal aspects of the film are
abstracted and extended off-screen, in an installa-
tion of sparse arrangement of sculptural works in
the rest of the exhibition space, belonging as such
to Epaminonda’s ongoing series
Volumes
, which
began in 2009.
Chapters
is co-produced by Point Centre for Con-
temporary Art, Modern Art Oxford, Kunsthaus
Zürich and the Fondazione Querini Stampalia in
Venice. In each gallery Epaminonda presents the
film in an entirely different way, crafting a succes-
sion of intimately connected but distinct exhibitions.
During the exhibition, presentations were held by
architect Andrea Bruno (The Museum of Noth-
ing) and Pavel Pyś, writer and curator at the Henri
Moore Institute, Leeds, while Haris Epaminonda
offered a guided tour.
Haris Epaminonda was born in Cyprus in 1980
and now lives and works in Berlin. She works
with a variety of media from collage to film, in-
stallation and sculpture. She emerged on the in-
ternational scene in 2007, representing Cyprus at
the 52
nd
Venice Biennale together with Turkish
Cypriot artist Mustafa Hulusi. She was educated
at the Royal College of Art, Kingston University
and Chelsea College of Art & Design, and she has
since gone on to exhibit at major art centres such
as the Tate Modern in London, MoMA in New
York, the Malmö Konsthall in Sweden, and dOC-
UMENTA(13) in Kassel. She has held residencies
such as at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin
with the support of the UNDO Foundation, Nico-
sia, and has recently been nominated for the ‘Preis
der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst’ in Germany.
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