Thomas Killian Roach: Weling
@ Document
845 W Washington Blvd, 2nd Floor, Chicago IL
Opening Friday, April 25th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, May 31st
Document is pleased to present Weling, a solo exhibition of new works by Thomas Killian Roach.
For several years Roach has made flatbed scans of movies and live feeds directly from a small tube televisionâdistorting the uniform moving image into fluctuating waves, compressing multiple shots onto a singe plane. His process resembles weaving: the longitudinal grille of the television is the warp; the horizontal movement of the scanning bar the weft; the televisionâs electron gun a loomâs fast-moving shuttle.
Roachâs idiosyncratic process extends and expands upon a minor tradition that spans Eadweard Muybridge and Etienne-Jules Mareyâs motion studies, early Modernist collage, and Chris Markerâs manipulations of time, memory, and the electronic image.
Roach has made and archived thousands of scans; Weling is their debut. The five works on view represent distinct lines of his practice. The exhibitionâs title, Weling, is disjointed text recorded in one of his first scans of live television.
The exhibition features three large-format scans and two smaller studies. An essay by Ara Merjian accompanies the exhibition.
Thomas Killian Roach (b. Bridgeport, Connecticut 1985) lives and works in Chicago. He is a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has recently exhibited in Cologne, Dusseldorf, Berlin and Chicago.
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