FRANCIS SUMMERS | UK

SINOPSE: 2F / 2F is a video work that lifts a section from a recent Hollywood narrative film and reworks it into a fragmented and repetitious drone. Extending virally from the original one second clip, 2F / 2F is a seven minute simulcral elongation of looping and micro-edited flips.

The original scenario, a bikini-clad woman rising from a swimming pool, is transformed into an explosive chain of machinic movements where the minimal events of lifted body, splashing water, bass soundtrack and flicked hair are discursively transformed by a strategy of sliding interruptions. In this video the sexualised signifiers of breasts, skin and hair (alongside the other affective motifs - water, colours and music) are set into a transformative play where clichéd formula becomes violently monstrous, and where the viewing experience is shifted from comfortable voyeuristic silence to disquieting self-awareness.

BIOGRAFIA DOS AUTORES: Francis Summers is a London-based artist who works with installation, incorporating elements of video, sound and still image. His primary concerns are with the representations of identity in the media and their potential displacement through strategies of appropriation, (counter) repetition, disarticulation and recomposition.

He has exhibited his work both nationally and internationally, showing at the Rotterdam Foto-Biennial and the Echo Park Underground Film festival, Los Angeles as well as in London\'s ICA, Five Years Gallery, Transition and Hoxton Distillery.