Questions

Selected Interiors, Cotham School- Hannah James

How was it made?

Where does it come from?

How does it make you feel?

What does it believe in?

What preceded it?

The work is made out of a projector that is placed on the floor, showing 22 pictures in a rotation. This collection of images was found at the Cottam School. The slides show images of 20th century paintings within a book. The slides taken from the book are most likely used to educate the students in art history. The work is developed from a research and interest in the representation of a painting as an image in a certain period of art history. The artist researched these found images. And most likely she used them as a tool in relation to her own practice. As a viewer you start to question where this work points to, because of its layered character. The artist seems to question the image in relation to the context of space and time of (art)history. Is it possible to pin an image down to a certain period? The images seem never to settle down, questioning the place where the image is projected, the photo was taken and at last the place of the page. So you can conclude that an images functions in different modes through the chronological order of history.

The artist presents these images as flexible to different modes of presenting and different periods of time

An image that at first was born from a creative and artistic desire becomes an object to educate students.