TABATHA ANDREWS

DILATION 2006

DVD projection, black and white silent 6 min loop

Dilation, a commission for the huge 'Reveal' event at the Forest of Dean, was projected directly onto a thick bank of conifer trees.  On approach, the viewer perceived a perfect black hole in the forest, expanding and contracting, always threatening to break out of the rectangle of the screen but never doing so.  As you walked past the work, its flatness broke down and the darkness became three dimensional, amorphous and unsettling.   

'Tabatha Andrews’ dilating black hole projected onto a row of evergreens, was a perfectly sited crescendo, which disrupted one’s own sense of three dimensionality after having been so tuned in to the depth of the forest by the other works. It recalls the Hegelian notion that pure light and pure darkness are two voids which are the same thing. ' Louise Short, AN Magazine June 2006