You enter a room: a table is set for
dinner; there are 8 unoccupied chairs. A dinner party is taking place,
but there are no guests - just the images of their hands, food, wine,
projected from above onto the white tablecloth and plates.
“Flaxton has created a minor masterpiece in the clarity of his
vision and the exploitation of the disconnect between two competing
realities occupying the same space. In a world where artist's video
installations can all too often be either obscurely portentous or mundanely
repetitive, it is refreshing to encounter a slice of the everyday and
an invitation to join in or observe, without pressure or humiliation.
When shown previously in the UK, whole families have enjoyed the experience
and left feeling enriched and enlivened.”
Professor Martin Rieser, Digital Imaging, Bath Spa University
Review in Venue Magazine
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