Colour-blind features shots of two domestic settings that could be read as part of a single narrative – the one representing what lies behind the other – or as two separate scenes at odds with one another – one somewhat kitsch and banal, the other rather more disturbed.
A multi-coloured plastic tassel blind flutters in a darkened doorway, obscuring the view through to a room beyond. Next to it, a short looped shot appropriated from the movie version of American Psycho features a room strewn with garbage, its walls decorated by blood-coloured splashes and graffitied text that reads ‘Die yuppie scum’. As the camera pans quickly around this room, the space is revealed as the realm of an unhinged obsessive, with chaotic painterly angst hinting something sinister and disturbed.
Colour-blind was first exhibited at Waygood Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne in 2003 as part of the exhibition ‘Tuesday is cerise’. The two clips were projected onto a pair of screens standing at an angle of approx 120 degrees to each other, each screen measured 300cmx400cm approximately. In 2007, a new single screen version of the work was created and a soundtrack added to both intensify the sense of paranoid claustrophobia and to create a definite beginning and an end.
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Colour-blind
2 screen DVD installation, 2003
