Steve Carr & Christian Lamont: Fading to the Sky
Fading to the Sky is a collaborative installation that Steve Carr and Christian Lamont developed and first exhibited in Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery during 2020 and has been reconsidered and reworked for CoCA’s Ō Papa Ground Floor Gallery.
Image credit: Steve Carr, The First Morning, 2020
26.10.21
12.02.22
This installation brings a range of photographic and moving image works together that occupy the walls, are projected onto a hanging screen and play out on a monitor that rests on the floor which activate the whole gallery.
In addition to this, Christian Lamont has subtly intervened in the architecture of this room by opening up and installing a set of purple theatre gels on a set of a previously blocked joinery windows, so the light levels and temperature are in a constant state of flux in the gallery as determined by the world beyond.
Fading to the Sky is presented in partnership with the University of Canterbury Ilam School of Fine Arts and CoCA Centre of Contemporary Art Toi Moroki.
Installation view of 'Fading to the Sky' at CoCA, 2021, Christian Lamont, Steve Carr
Installation view of 'Fading to the Sky' - CoCA 2021, Christian Lamont, Steve Carr
Installation view of 'Fading to the Sky' - CoCA 2021, Christian Lamont, Steve Carr
Installation view of 'Fading to the Sky' - CoCA 2021, Christian Lamont, Steve Carr
The Artists
Christian Lamont
Ōtautahi
Christian Lamont was born in Ōtautahi Christchurch in 1998. He studied at Ilam School of Fine Arts, graduating with first class honours in 2020. He is a film and installation artist whose practice is interested in exploring light and colour towards generating immersive sensory and temporal environments. He does this by using natural and artificial light along with artistic interventions of established architecture. Recent exhibitions include 400 Lux, Hot Lunch gallery, Christchurch (2020) and Fading to the Sky, Te Uru Gallery, Auckland (2021).
Fading to the Sky is presented in partnership with the University of Canterbury Ilam School of Fine Arts and CoCA Centre of Contemporary Art Toi Moroki.
Steve Carr
Ōtautahi
Steve Carr was born in Maruawai Gore in 1976, and graduated with a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Auckland’s Elam School of Fine Arts in 2003. Recent solo exhibitions include Chasing the Light, City Gallery Wellington (2019)/National Gallery of Victoria (2019)/Christchurch Art Gallery (2018), A Manual for Small Archives, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne (2016), Bullet Time, Wellington City Gallery (2016), Stretching Time, Dunedin Public Art Gallery (2014).
Steve Carr currently lives and works in Ōtautahi Christchurch and is represented in New Zealand by Michael Lett, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland and in Australia by STATION, Melbourne/Sydney. He has been a Senior Lecturer at Ilam School of Art since 2016.
Exhibition details
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