Rose Butler and Kypros Kyprianou
One Lime Street
About the artist
Rose Butler's lens-based moving image and installation work responds to new developments in technology by re-organizing and re-articulating the domestic, urban, or rural spaces we attempt to navigate. Kypros Kyprianou's varied practice uses cultural phenomena to examine scientific approaches. A current residency at ACA 'A Car boot sale of the Periodic Table' traces the journeys and transformation of second-hand goods and attempts to map them to the chemical elements. 'One, Lime Street' is the result of their first artistic collaboration together.
About the work
One Lime Street pushes the idea of virtual and real journeying: a formalised meditation on the architecture of the famous Lloyds of London building and its exoskeleton lifts. Filmed from inside the lifts facing out, the background buildings and horizon are digitally locked in position. The result makes the lifts travel past the screens, an unexpected relationship between the camera, the vertical journey and the background perspectives results in a slippage between figure and ground. Through presentation of the cubic space in which the passengers enter and leave, we are reminded of the other spaces that are viewed through the rectangular screen; television, internet, photography, cinema and the possibilities of manipulation within these media. The work was originally shown as a mounted portrait, on six synchronized 16:9 flat screen monitors.
Additional credits:
One Lime Street was made by Rose Butler and Kypros Kyprianou. The cameraperson was Roland Denning. Funded by Arts Council England and Site Gallery Sheffield.
