Beholding Video: Motion in the Picture Gallery

David Campany will reflect on the moving image in the picture gallery, in the context of the current exhibition. What relations are there between beholding pictures and beholding ‘motion pictures’? Can pictures move and still be pictures?

David Campany is a writer, curator and artist. His books include Art and Photography (Phaidon, 2003), Photography and Cinema (Reaktion, 2008) and Jeff Wall: Picture for Women (Afterall/MIT, 2011). He writes for Frieze, Source and Aperture. In 2010 he co-curated Anonymes: unnamed America in Photography and Film for Le Bal, Paris.

Image: David Claerbout, The Quiet Shore, still.