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Civilized (version 2)

Alex Gawronski
2007

Presented at the Fauvette Loureiro Travelling Scholarship Award exhibition, Sydney College of the Arts galleries, 2007.

Digital video, PAL, silent 
Duration: 7 sec loop repeated over approx 3mins, repeated
MDF, timber, stain, paint, perspex, tracing paper, video projector, DVD loop, PVC pipe, rope, eyelets, bolts 

Rear projection of archival footage from the US led Gulf War (1990-91) depicting a desert horizon exploding in perpetuity and now appearing as an animated ‘landscape painting’.

 

Alex Gawronski, Civilized (version 2), 2007. Installation view, Fauvette Loureiro Travelling Scholarship Award exhibition, Sydney College of the Arts galleries.
Alex Gawronski, Civilized (version 2), 2007. Installation view, Fauvette Loureiro Travelling Scholarship Award exhibition, Sydney College of the Arts galleries. 
Alex Gawronski, Civilized (version 2), 2007. Installation view, Fauvette Loureiro Travelling Scholarship Award exhibition, Sydney College of the Arts galleries.
Alex Gawronski, Civilized (version 2), 2007. Installation view, Fauvette Loureiro Travelling Scholarship Award exhibition, Sydney College of the Arts galleries.