"Metamorphosis" @ galerie nichido: nichido contemporary art Tokyo

nca | nichido contemporary art is pleased to present Irish artist Clare Langan's second solo exhibition.
The show will present a new video work,"Metamorphosis" and photographic works..

Clare Langan powerfully cultivates introspection, where poetic atmospheres and elegiac landscape, capture the very nature of our fragile existence against the perpetual forces of nature. Metamorphosis, 2007 is recalling the acclaimed series A Film Trilogy, 1999 ? 2002.
Metamorphosis deals with issues of cinematic off time, but here time becomes specific, as we see a suspend time of social history. Langan's work investigates an empty cityscape whose streets are eerily absent of its inhabitations. The storm leads us into snow filled interiors, with only flashes of it's former inhabitations to suggest a human presence, but not leading to any definitive conclusions as to their fate.
The hybridity of Clare Langan's practice is can be see with film references that are both historically arresting and diverse, from early black and white glass plate photography and with the beautiful Japanese ink drawings (15th century); this is also merged with an original score by the composer, Jurgen Simpson.