24-hour-long film Primetime 2022 unveiled at the Hayward Gallery
A new 24-hour-long film, Primetime, 2022, by Anthea Hamilton has been unveiled on the elevated terrace next to the Hayward Gallery, overlooking the Royal Festival Hall.
The film launches this year’s expanding programme of striking outdoor installations, offering free access to art for all.
Ralph Rugoff, director at the Hayward Gallery, said: “Primetime is a visually stunning, thrillingly inventive project that plays with the dynamic between still and moving images, analogue and digital, sculpture and video, while compellingly refreshing our ideas of what a ‘film’ can be.”
Katie Guggenheim, assistant curator at the Hayward Gallery, said: “Anthea Hamilton’s collaborative and de-centred approach to film-making has drawn on the creativity and expertise of her inspiring cast and production crew and the 24-hour timeline creates space for a highly subjective kind of collective self-portrait.”
Primetime, 2022, – on show until April 24 has been specifically conceived for the gallery’s architecture and location.
The work features a photograph of an almost nude male model from the early 1980s intercut with new footage of four performers – Jasmine Chiu, Jordan Johnhope, Duane Nasis and Bakani Pick-Up.
Each one draws on a broad repertoire of movements, images and references to generate distinctive sequences that are mapped onto the 24-hour cycle of a clock.
Pictured: Anthea Hamilton Primetime, 2022 Installation view at Hayward Gallery
Website: Anthea Hamilton: Primetime (southbankcentre.co.uk)
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