Notes

From early childhood, film provided an escape for Brice. As an artist working in Trinidad, she became a regular at the weekly gatherings of the StudioFilmClub (SFC) run by artists Peter Doig and Che Lovelace. Night vision photographs taken by Brice during the screenings were used to illustrate and record the atmosphere of the SFC nights in a catalogue printed by Walter Koenig, for an exhibition of Doig’s painted SFC posters at the Museum Ludwig, Cologne and the Kunsthalle, Zurich, 2005. […]

Whilst drawing on her usual accumulation of imagery from media sources, the work is also informed by the hundreds of night vision photographs that Brice has taken over the last few years, during her exploration and new found fascination with the medium of photography. The almost monochromatic greenish palette of the night vision mode on video cameras suggests, apart from the eeriness of the desaturated colour, a sense of intrigue and an invasion of privacy.

This investigation reveals the variety of forms fear takes on, like a shape shifter, forms often found in folklore, religion, film, children’s stories, politics as well as in our personal mythologies … the work is intended to suggest a struggle in which hope and magic have the possibility of prevailing.’¹

1. Goodman Gallery (2006) ‘Lisa Brice/NightVision’, https://www.goodman-gallery.com/exhibitions/455

Exhibited

Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, Lisa Brice: Night Vision, 21 January to 11 February 2006.