Everything we do corrects the space

Workplace Gallery is delighted to present Everything we do corrects the space our second solo exhibition of new work by Cath Campbell. Two short films for quartets and for the yellow smoke continue an on going process of appropriating, manipulating and deconstructing found images and documentary travel photography collected from publications and the internet. The films are made up of collected footage from travel diaries and documentaries found on YouTube depicting different American States - Alaska and California.

Each film is structured as a series of short acts, parts or chapters, and the content of each is determined by the narrative contained in the subtitles. In each found film clip, the original dialogue is translated through Google automatic captions, leading to a series of slight mistranslations that lends a poetic subtext to the work. The disparate film clips are then carefully stitched together to create a dreamlike narrative that refers to the literary device of the 'inner monologue' or 'stream of consciousness' in which the writer attempts to remove rational thought, instead presenting the inner consciousness of the character. Each title was taken from a poem by T S Elliot, who uses this device in his work.