Returns and Repair
2010
Single channel video, sound
6 minutes, 38 seconds
Single channel video, sound,6 minutes, 38 seconds
Single channel video, sound, 6 minutes, 38 seconds
Single channel video, sound, 6 minutes, 38 seconds
Single channel video, sound, 6 minutes, 38 seconds
“Often beginning from the point of collation, or archiving a mass of technological ephemera, Ward’s works combine continuity and fetishism to the point of aesthetic antinomy and cinematic intrigue. In this sense, temporal suspense and a filmic suspension of disbelief somewhat uncomfortably fluctuate between rarified technology and material obsolescence. Working with collections of pre-existent images and objects Ward’s videos are both homage and critique placed between memory and expectation. Moving from the cinematic to the technical, Returns and Repair simultaneously undoes the physical object of the image while building a fragmented narrative against this.”
— Gil Leung