UC Irvine

We Three (My echo, my shadow and me) presents a tripartite work that exercises forms of tracing, imbedding, concealing and revealing across painting, video, and installation. Inspired by Jacques Rivette’s 1974 film Celine and Julie Go Boating, We Three examines perception and subjectivity in today’s screenic culture. We Three draws out modes transference in the form of an echoed, displaced transmission as it exists within and between specific artworks. The three parts are installed as echoes of one another: the first part is comprised of nine small watercolors made after day-long meanderings around Paris. Shown opposite of the watercolors are three digital paintings printed on silk, each faintly backlit, resembling a monitor. Brightly stained gestures become immersed within a pixelated, translucent field, and are further distorted through the process of stretching, revealing snippets of the frames underneath. The triad is completed with Drawing Near (2015), a two-channel projection on opposing walls. Each projection depicts the same scene filmed at different times; one shot in HD digital video the other in B&W Super 8 film. The characters in each film (both acted out by the artist) occupy kindred positions, each mirroring the actions of the other in a hopeless attempt to attain what is always already just beyond their reach. The game is played out within each video and between the two simultaneously. The installation on the whole vacillates between synchronicity and divergence, here and now, there and then.