Details
| First Name | Veronica |
| Last Name | Vossen |
| Username | V-Vossen |
| Website | |
| Region | Highlands |
| Disciplines | Film, Installation, Moving Image, Photography, Printmaking |
| Themes | Environment, Site-specific |
Statement
| Statement | I am a lens-based artist working with digital media in both still and moving image, focusing on single and multi-channel video projections in immersive installations and screenings with ambient sound. These are presented in a variety of public venues, in site-specific, gallery and cinematic locations and international festivals. Print works are drawn from the moving imager works; C-type prints on aluminium often as installations of triptychs: single prints of photo-polymer gravure and giclée print, and Lightbox mounted transparencies. My latest moving image work, the single channel film ‘Tellus Nullius -Sola’ is being shown internationally at Éphémère Experimental Film Festival in London, Video Project in Casserta, Italy, Festival Berlin & Madrid, Athens International Art Film Festival, DeleteTV in London UK, Tokyo International Short Film Festival and Barcelona Indie Film Awards. My current overarching project is “Aeonic”, culminating with a major exhibition 10 June-31 July 2023 at An Talla Solais Art Gallery in Ullapool, Highlands. It includes “Tellus Nullius” a 3-channel video immersive installation and digital prints drawn from key frames in the videos. Core narratives in the work concern the disjunction between the aeonic timespan of the evolution of the Earth’s biosphere and human time consciousness, and the balance and sustainability of the ecosphere. The originating point of my practice centres on the photographic still image and the performative gesture of photographing. The metanarrative of my lens-based practice centres around issues of liminal perception in temporal, spatial and visual consciousness, pervading the construction and presentation of both moving-image and print-based work. Photographic stills provide a unique optical access to the world by stilling and concentrating the gaze for attention and reflection, yet can also frame ambiguities and the unknowable. Within the manipulated photographic image, working often with inverted (negative) versions, I am fascinated by how the perceptual slippage of colour /tone inversion accentuates materiality yet disturbs perceptual certainties. From accumulated still images and video I construct moving image work –a form of “slide-motion film”- multiple stills cumulated into dissolving image/time sequences, shifting between stillness and motion in a constructed temporal rhythm, engaging metanarratives on temporal and perceptual estrangement. |
Biography
| Biography | I studied Fine Art to doctoral level at the Slade School of Art, University College London and now live and work between my home and project base in the far northwest of Scotland UK and a studio in Peckham, London where I am a visiting lecturer at King’s College London teaching a Medical Humanities course on “Representations of the Body in Western Art: a Social and Cultural Critique”. Since 2010 my main base has been in the Coigach peninsular, a wild and remote landscape that is the context and inspiration for ‘Aeonic’ my 5 year project addressing the global ecological issues of the Anthropocene. The culminating body of work of this project was first presented at An Talla Solais Art Gallery in Ullapool, Highlands, to tour in 2024-5. It includes “Tellus Nullius” a 3-channel video immersive installation and digital prints drawn from key frames in the videos. In 2024 my latest works are being shown internationally: the single channel videos ‘Tellus Nullius -Sola’ and ‘Oceanus Nullius-Sola’ exhibited in installation and screened at AA29 Video Project in Casserta, Italy, and ‘Tellus Nullius- Sola’ exhibited and screened at Éphémère Experimental Film Festival in London, FilmArte Festival Berlin & Madrid, Athens International Art Film Festival, DeleteTV in London UK, Tokyo International Short Film Festival and Barcelona Indie Film Awards. I have previously exhibited nationally across the UK, and internationally in Holland and Germany, in independent and public galleries, and in a range of site-specific locations. I am particularly interested in showing moving image projections in unusual & sometimes outdoor locations, such as recently on the sea front, Portobello Edinburgh, and onto control tower of Caledonian Canal, Inverness. Previous unusual locations have included defunct offices, an old bank, Strand Underground Station, Shoreditch railway arches, a defunct pub and warehouse, Rio Cinema Hackney & a decommissioned church in Norwich. I have previously worked within a ‘Science/ Art’ context in collaborative projects with a number of research and academic organisations, including University College London and King’s College London, on issues of liminal visual and temporal consciousness in relation to lens-based and time-based practice.
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