
Niamh O'Malley
‘Grasses’ , 2019
6min 10sec loop, silent, LED Screen, 16:9
Dimensions variable
https://vimeo.com/358019196
https://vimeo.com/358019196
Edition 1/3 + 1 AP
Copyright The Artist
Further images
Grasses (2019) is a video shot with an iPhone in a field in Wales. It captures grasses’ long slender grasses whipped back and forth as winds gust. O’Malley’s footage is...
Grasses (2019) is a video shot with an iPhone in a field in Wales. It captures grasses’ long slender grasses whipped back and forth as winds gust. O’Malley’s footage is shot with the iPhone’s ‘live’ function, which creates 3-second moving images that capture details before and after the intended single shot capture. And she has screen-recorded herself scrolling through these excessive images from her phone’s store of approximately two hundred. The recording does not picture the artists fingers but tracks the pace and rhythm with which she scrolls, catching any irregularities or interruptions in the sequencing. O’Malley intentionally used this function which exaggerates the moments, and magic, of developments in digital image capture whilst also wanting the effect to be, ‘fidgety and distracting – even a little violent within what is otherwise a very still space.’