Shadow Play: Hans-Peter Feldmann

About

Düsseldorf-based, Hans-Peter Feldmann is a passionate collector of images and objects, an original thinker and one of the first conceptual artists. He combines found photographs, images from advertising, magazines and private albums with kitsch knick-knacks and other ephemera to produce playful, unsettling narrative arrangements. Shadow Play is a work comprised of small figurines and household objects placed on slowly revolving platforms. Illuminated by crude, self-made spotlights, their shadows cyclically carousel across the wall. Figures weave in and out of focus, morphing into one another in perpetually shifting combinations. Feldmann's endless fascination with finding euphoria in the mundane here manifests itself in a riff on shadow puppetry, photography and cinema, as familiar objects become fantastic via simple shining spots of light. Shadow Play: Hans-Peter Feldmann will open as part of the Ulster Bank Belfast Festival at Queen's, which runs from 15-30th october 2010, in venues throughout Belfast. For further information, or to buy tickets, visit www.belfastfestival.com or call the box office on 028 9097 1197.