It is confirmed our main Artists’ Moving Image feature  for the 2009 festival will be internationally acclaimed film-artist Mark Lewis who has just returned  to London from the Venice Biennale and his series of four films  entitled ‘Cold Morning’ at the Canadian Pavilion.

Mark will screen three moving image works including  the international premiere of his newest work, currently under construction.

His practice is focused on the many ways in which the time and space of moving image can transform the pictorial conventions of landscape, portraiture and genre scenes. Many monographs have been produced on his work and it has been exhibited widely:  BFI Southbank, London:  Cetro Andluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Sevilla; Vancouver Art Gallery;  Whitney Museum of American Art, Mori Art Museum,  Tokyo; Tate Britain, London; the Centre Pompidou, Paris.  For more details visit www.marklewisstudio.com

“Mark Lewis  film work has returned to he problem of modernity, to the dilemma of its irretrievable pastness on the one hand and it’s continued centrality to it’s thought about art and politics on the other.  In the choice of rear- projection resurrects an archaic technology that shares some attributes of the aesthetics of modernity” Laura Mulvey

The Exhibition will run for a month from 20th November – 12th December at the University of Brighton Gallery.