Intersection No. 5 (Horizontal Volume), 2008
4’ 33”
The work of Daniel Crooks focuses on the way in which the moving image reshapes our perception of time and space. Beyond the usual vernacular of video-art, he refers back to such early photographic experiments as the ones Eadweard Muybridge and Etienne-Jules Marey –scientific works that attempt to decompose movement in still frames, somewhat working in the opposite direction of cinema. The five works comprising Intersection are all sourced from the same “volume” of video footage. Each video is a formal variation that navigates an alternative path through the same light field, ushering its own “picture plane” through that space along opposing axes. These complex and beautiful time structures reveal a sensibility seemingly at odds with the ordinariness of the subject matter. His digital images stretch and distort reality while questioning our perception of it.
