
Echo 2013
Wood, Steel, Resin, Video, Light, Sound
100x150x250cms
Statement
Not long ago I came across a photograph I had never seen before. It was a snapshot of my mother standing in the door of the houseboat home in which I spent my early childhood. The picture is extraordinary, not because of a superior quality of light, or composition or any technical aspect. It is extraordinary in that it is the first photograph I have ever seen of the house, just the house.
I have seen photographs from a distance in which the houseboat makes up a bit of the background. I have pored over them for hours attempting to tease from my memory the unseen details of architecture and details of the living that the building contained.
So this extraordinary photograph came like a gift. The gift it brought was a starting point for a body of writing about homes and how we dwell within them, and it was the starting point for a body of studio work that has brought me up to this point. It came as a complete surprise to me that the one rather faded and blown out picture of sunshine on water and my mother shading her eyes in the doorway could be the starting point of so much creativity.
The object that has featured in all of my work this year is a model of this boat. The doors and windows placed only where they are visible in this photograph. Cast because the trace is interesting to me. It is memory of place, affection, nostalgia and the myths we author that saturate this work. Delicate and dreamlike, just a little impossible and with, hopefully, a touch of magic it teeters preposterously on spider limbs. It is the echo of a memory, it is there and not there.
The sculpture itself is full of movement, flickering shadows, and moving image. The video that fills one end was filmed through a Camera Obscura. The houseboat floats in and out of the frame, its features are blurred, the outlines indistinct. The Camera Obscura become a mediator, it creates a further distance between source and image. It is a reflection, captured and abstracted through inversion. The tracing paper screen creates a visual quality that is dreamlike and reminiscent of old film. You can see this video here
'Echo by Christina Romero-Cross was one of the strongest artwork on show at FloatArt. Standing in perfect harmony on the upper deck of the Dixie Queen Paddleboat located by Tower Bridge, the sculpture is bought to life by flickering shadows and moving image. Standing strong (..) and tall, its resin like skin add another level of sensibility and poetic glow to the work. Like moth to flames, I kept on coming back to admire from different angles. A bright future for artist Christina Romero-Cross.' N. Laborie
Here and Here are additional videos filmed at the Shoreditch show.
Here and Here are additional videos filmed and and edited by Micheal Hooper, you can find him here
Wood, Steel, Resin, Video, Light, Sound
100x150x250cms
Statement
Not long ago I came across a photograph I had never seen before. It was a snapshot of my mother standing in the door of the houseboat home in which I spent my early childhood. The picture is extraordinary, not because of a superior quality of light, or composition or any technical aspect. It is extraordinary in that it is the first photograph I have ever seen of the house, just the house.
I have seen photographs from a distance in which the houseboat makes up a bit of the background. I have pored over them for hours attempting to tease from my memory the unseen details of architecture and details of the living that the building contained.
So this extraordinary photograph came like a gift. The gift it brought was a starting point for a body of writing about homes and how we dwell within them, and it was the starting point for a body of studio work that has brought me up to this point. It came as a complete surprise to me that the one rather faded and blown out picture of sunshine on water and my mother shading her eyes in the doorway could be the starting point of so much creativity.
The object that has featured in all of my work this year is a model of this boat. The doors and windows placed only where they are visible in this photograph. Cast because the trace is interesting to me. It is memory of place, affection, nostalgia and the myths we author that saturate this work. Delicate and dreamlike, just a little impossible and with, hopefully, a touch of magic it teeters preposterously on spider limbs. It is the echo of a memory, it is there and not there.
The sculpture itself is full of movement, flickering shadows, and moving image. The video that fills one end was filmed through a Camera Obscura. The houseboat floats in and out of the frame, its features are blurred, the outlines indistinct. The Camera Obscura become a mediator, it creates a further distance between source and image. It is a reflection, captured and abstracted through inversion. The tracing paper screen creates a visual quality that is dreamlike and reminiscent of old film. You can see this video here
'Echo by Christina Romero-Cross was one of the strongest artwork on show at FloatArt. Standing in perfect harmony on the upper deck of the Dixie Queen Paddleboat located by Tower Bridge, the sculpture is bought to life by flickering shadows and moving image. Standing strong (..) and tall, its resin like skin add another level of sensibility and poetic glow to the work. Like moth to flames, I kept on coming back to admire from different angles. A bright future for artist Christina Romero-Cross.' N. Laborie
Here and Here are additional videos filmed at the Shoreditch show.
Here and Here are additional videos filmed and and edited by Micheal Hooper, you can find him here