Repatriating The Object With No Shadow

Repatriating The Object With No Shadow is a 2 x 16mm projection work in which the subject of the work is both its medium (representation ethnography), its movement (across platforms (digital and analogue)and its desire to return. The work was included in the exhibition 'Film in Space: An exhibition of film and expanded cinema selected by Guy Sherwin'. As a curatorial gesture Sherwin opens up the exhibition space to other practitioners, and as an extension of this gesture and one specifically aimed at over-turning the male dominance within the discourse of British Avant-garde film work, the artist Lucy Reynolds extended the invitation and platform of the exhibition to a series of newly commissioned film works from woman artists. Lucy Reynolds' contribution consisted of a film, 'Anthology'. She invited 17 other women artists and writers, who work at the point of convergence between text and image, to contribute short film loops to this collective artwork. Erika Tan's 'Repatriating The Object With No Shadow' was included in Reynolds' 'Anthology', along with Ami Clarke, Annabel Frearson, Lizzie Hughes, Sharon Kivland, Gil Lueng, Liliane Lijn, Hélène Martin, Annabel Nicolson, Sharon Morris, Sally O'Reilly, Clunie Reid, Lis Rhodes, Audrey Reynolds, Cherry Smyth, Anne Tallentire and Sarah Tripp. 'Anthology Live' was a presentation of some of their other explorations on the interplay of word and image in an evening of readings, screenings, music and performances, on 20 February 2013