The artwork depicts a large projection of a black-and-white image of a turbulent, crashing ocean wave. The composition features stark contrasts between light and dark, with the powerful wave dominating the frame. The minimalist setting, with simple wooden blocks serving as seating, allows the viewer to focus solely on the captivating visual. The artist's use of projection and monochrome emphasizes the raw, elemental nature of the subject, inviting the audience to contemplate the raw power and unpredictability of nature. This contemplative piece likely explores themes of the human relationship with the natural world. ...
James N. Kienitz Wilkins is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker whose films disbalance their own construction, with the image, traditionally being the core of moving image work, occupying peripheral space. His films are characterised by a rush of language, like the competing series of monologues in This Action Lies (2018), the public hearing transcript in Public Hearing (2012) and the reflections on cinema narrated by a Morgan Freeman impersonator in the VR film The Dynamic Range (2018). Absurdist and self-aware, Kienitz Wilkins’s works are contextualised by his personal experience of the social relations in his native New England, as well as the means of labour in the contemporary, digital age. The films, shown in exhibition spaces, are experimental documents of uncomfortable truths, social codes and anxieties that provocatively leak outside the conventions of moving images. ...
