Jacob Dahlgren
Kung Fu Panda
24 April - 22 May 2015
The Old Post Office, Gateshead
- Venue
- The Old Post Office
- Date
- 25 April – 23 May 2015
Gateshead,
United Kingdom
Kung Fu Panda is a new video work by Swedish artist Jacob Dahlgren in which he films the reflected ambient light on an adjacent white wall at home, whilst his children are watching the eponymous animated feature film. Filmed in High Definition from a fixed camera position and projected as a single work in a gallery context Dahlgren’s Kung Fu Panda becomes an absorbing and constantly changing digital colour field painting that manifests a subtlety at odds with the apparent chaos of the original film dubbed in Swedish, and the surrounding scenario as the artist’s children watch whilst carrying on their own everyday conversations.