Daniel Crooks Intersection

Beyond the usual vernacular of video art, Daniel Crooks has developed his own approach entirely. Absorbing influences including the early scientific photography of Eadweard Muybridge and Etienne Jules Marey (whose work inspired the seminal Nude descending a staircase, 1912 by Marcel Duchamp), Crooks has a deep understanding of how a work of art can express the experiential value of time.

The subjects of Daniel’s work; the recurrence of city transport systems, lifts in high-rise buildings alongside images of the sea, invoke an idea of the world made as much of time as space and that indeed we ourselves are also made of time.

Crooks works, literally, from inside the medium, deconstructing its time-space matrix to reveal the inner truth about the subjects of video: they are purely temporal. These works declare that reproducing first glances won’t do: the great power of art is to reveal truth through an augmentation of how the world appears.

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