Luke Shaw
SLEEPWALKER
9 August – 2 September 2023
Luke Shaw is an artist and musician that lives in Ōtautahi. His work is primarily sound-based and stretches across the fields of music, installation, performance and video. Recent exhibitions include The Mist and the Horizon with Nathan Pōhio at CoCA (2021), Cross Modal at the Audio Foundation (2021) and Somewhere Between Nothing and Nowhere with Phoebe Hinchliff at Blue Oyster Art Project Space (2021).
Sleepwalker is a speculative video work that explores fluctuating levels of clarity within memory, pitch and language. Drawing from an archive of found images and using processes of re-recording, the sleepwalker is imagined as a spectral figure that is able to manoeuvre between memories and cinematic planes. In doing so, Sleepwalker reconsiders the archive as something malleable, and susceptible to the reshuffling and expanding of its framework. The work features a soundtrack by the Opawa 45s.
Images by Ardit Hoxha