“Summer Solstice: 24 Hour Film”
Jeffrey Blondes lives between Paris and the Loire Valley. His work explores the intersection of landscape and time – in particular the French word ‘temps’ with its numerous interpretations: time, weather, season, beat, rhythm, speed, cycle, pulse. The length of his videos (i.e. 24 or 52 hours) provides a visual record of an experience in an isolated rural place in real time. The local sense of time is transported from the area into the viewing experience. The viewer is transported visually and temporally into a new conceptual space. Blondes’ is highlighting the function of landscape in art as a means of projection and escapism, creating a space between perception and experience. His films are presented vertically on the wall with a picture frame, so that at first glance they look like paintings.
Summer Solstice: 24 Hour Film is one 24 hour capture of the never-ending day from midnight June 21st to Midnight June 22nd in Tornehamn, a spit of land 200 km north of the Arctic Circle on Tornetrask, a large lake leading into Lapland on the Swedish-Norwegian border.
