Tina Ribarits: camera trap

“As they listened, they began to understand the lives of the Forest, apart from themselves, indeed to feel themselves as the strangers where all other things were at home”. - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

Camera trap is an encounter with the act of looking, with capture as an act of engagement, with the wild as a question whose answer has nothing to do with civilisation or safety. In this show, Tina Ribarits deploys analogue and digital strategies – video, drawing and installation – to collect and convey an experience of poetic-co-existence, an interval of being strange in non-human space. Here we find documentation without the imperative for accuracy, and memory whose lessons continue to recede into a space that is both beyond and within.

• Season Butler