Clay Bodvin: Hybrid Memories & Still Life of Trivial Objects

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Where: Lopdell House Gallery, 5 Totara Ave, Auckland

Restrictions: All Ages

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Admission: Free

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Event listed by: Clay Bodvin

Opening preview April 19, 6pm, exhibition runs through to June 10.

For over a decade the artist Clay Bodvin has been intent on re-inventing the still life. That focus has included an examination of the genre’s history as well as, for several years now, how the painting of those so-called trivial objects interacted with portraiture.

Bodvin’s current work illuminates this connected history. Extracts from his usable past - old family photos and travel snapshots - are combined with digitally-scanned images of textiles and everyday objects. An autobiographical investigation merging with the luxurious nature of everyday things.

For this exhibition, however, Clay also embarked upon a new creative direction. One of transforming his intriguing remade spaces and hybrid memories into short ‘home-movie’ videos.

These live-action fragments of memory (usually under three minutes) are assembled by applying a low-tech process of stop-frame animation to the artist’s large stock of static imagery - moving pictures that are aptly labelled animeSTILLLIFE©. These new, creative expressions are complemented by original soundtracks which the artist describes as ‘painted sound’ rather than music.

Bodvin rematerialises aspects of his own lived experience while providing richly-textured evidence that memories are both actual and artificial at the same time. A selection of dynamic still-image, wall-hung objects complete the picture.