Michael John Whelan
Video Installation
Film
Photography
Objects
Paper & Sound
Info
News
Frontier
Now the shadows I measure
An echo and a shadow
Mercer
Baribal
The sun shone on the
nothing new

Reprieve
A Perfect Circle
Assembly
Kindred
Clearing
Since
The Memoirs of a Madman
And penance is the play
Cathedral
Baribal
2013
single channel video, colour, silent
9:30 min
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Using a locked camera angle, a captive bred solitary Black Bear in Berlin and the trees of its enclosure are disconnected from the ground. The anthropomorphic values we place on animals, in this case lamentation and loneliness, are positioned within a minimal and vacuous landscape, allowing our experience of looking to reflect the experience of the animal. The work is seamlessly looped.