Opening Feb 8, 2008

BIO

Michael Jones was born in Calgary, Alberta and studied at the Alberta College of Art and Design and the Slade School of Fine Art in London, UK. He currently resides in London.

On one hand my film installations encourage the imagined narrative through the sensory seduction of the cinematic experience. On the other, the arrangement of materials and gestures performed are employed to demystify the cinematic image by exposing the world on screen as the sum of parts; film, stock, lighting, lenses and smoke. Whether re-filming a scene of youth rebellion from an iconic 60”s film or redoing conceptual art performances, these installations re-stage the cusp between the ‘truth’ within the material conditions of presentation and reception. Through the suggestive power of an object, artifice is reassigned as a means to critique the way the presentation is sometimes employed to stand in for the reel