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Frari (2011) [Single channel HD video installation 3’46”]

Frari developed the process, used in Kilkenny Shift, of combining reanimated photographic stills and continuous, recorded sound to create a disjunction that can express a hidden location. Access to the usually publicly inaccessible interior of the Frari campanile in Venice was negotiated. Thousands of still photographs were taken by Davies as he walked up and down the ramps that run from the base to the top inside the campanile, left after its construction. Photographs were selected and edited together to make a video, which was combined with an audio recording of Davies ascending the ramps. The principal disjunction created in the work was between the distribution of light and dark in the stills, from architectural recesses and sunlight through windows, and the silence, breath and sudden sound on the soundtrack. The fact that some sounds and images meshed but that the majority did not helped to give a sense of the tussle between what is significant and insignificant – the things that may or may not become prominent – in one’s experience of an historical location.

Frari was exhibited at the Tim Davies Wales in Venice solo show, 54th Venice Biennale International Art Exhibition, 2011; and at the National Museum of Wales as part of Diffusion, Cardiff’s International Festival of Photography, 2013. It was featured in the following publications: Globus and Jones (eds), Tim Davies (Ridinghouse 2011), and the catalogue for the National Museum Diffusion exhibition, Cardiff 2013.