soho
double video installation - clips
SOHO is a double-video installation created as part of The Philosophical Brothel, a group-show provoking reflection on the reconfiguration of time, space and art processes in contemporary practice - now, a 100 years on from Picasso's Les Demoiselles.
Concerned with a territory marked out for the consumption of sex, the SOHO videos document the masked realities of lure and seduction that become the object of the way we trade "gaze". The sleaze surrounding the consumerism of the "human market" is aligned with the surreptitious "gaze" of the filmmaking process - a film made specifically with a partly hidden camera inside the porn shops of Soho, and another tracing the Soho streets, London's red light district. The fragmented and multi-dimensions of the cubist frame is conceptually transposed into the manipulations of the moving image, the layering of the screen and breaking up the projection space.