Gareth Spor

Gareth Spor

GARETH SPOR (b. 1977, England) grew up in the United States. He holds a PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology from the University of California, Berkeley where he studied the neurophysiology of the retina. Currently he has just completed his masters degree at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. His artwork surrounds ideas of the cosmos both outside of an inside of ourselves.

Gareth Spor Curriculum Vitae (ENG)

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Work presented:

Illuminating

Fifteen subjects are witnessed grappling with deep questions about the universe while the questions themselves are never explicitly revealed.

Photosynthesis

The loop cycles through 4 shots of a single event, the illumination of a tree by a set of massive spot lights.

Works

Sound of the Sun

Sound of the Sun

This is an ongoing series of works, a retelling of three generations of family members’ experiences within a physical and political landscape.

beachoma

Two similar photographs of tourists on the beach sunbathing make up this video.

The Physical Impossibility of Foretelling the Future: Part 1

The Physical Impossibility of Foretelling the Future: Part 1

Is this a dream of sweet childhood or a never-ending nightmare?

eternal return redux

eternal return redux

We can change time, we can travel!

Mechanisms of Exposure ~ SceneSetting

Mechanisms of Exposure ~ SceneSetting

Eradicating the perspective confining the space-time continuum of “natural perception”.

Lights in the Sky

Lights in the Sky

The camera starts backing away, and tries to escape the ever approaching lights.

Salty Snow

Salty Snow thematises the yearning for a child. The film reflects on the innate human need to breed, to create things new. Maarit Suomi-Väänänen

UP AND ABOUT AGAIN

UP AND ABOUT AGAIN

is an experimental film about negotiating the road of life.

Photosynthesis

The loop cycles through 4 shots of a single event, the illumination of a tree by a set of massive spot lights.

TRUST

In “Trust” we are presented with four young women in a snow-clad forest.
They are seemingly seeking their way through the trees…. Mariken Kramer.

Illuminating

Fifteen subjects are witnessed grappling with deep questions about the universe while the questions themselves are never explicitly revealed.

YLÖ

This dichotomous video attempts to suspend time so as to produce a feeling of elevation.