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After Image

After Image is a three-part multidisciplinary international group exhibition with accompanying cultural arts programme. Roulstone’s contribution includes joint curation, concept development of the exhibition and cultural programme, the production of a curatorial text for the catalogue and ten of her own artworks. After Image’s curatorial aims are to contribute an original engagement with what might constitute an after image through multi disciplinary arts practice. It continues and develops a central research concern relating to philosophical ideas surrounding temporality and the potential of the moment in relation to light. The idea of the after image is associated with a residual optical impression retained after looking at a light source once your eyes have closed. This ghostly shadowing may be perceived as a reversal of the original, a negative after image, such as in the case of a photographic negative or positive where the colours remain in place. This possibility of a perceptual double take or repositioning of an image through light suggests an optical movement or impression that persists momentarily and then fades. The multidisciplinary works in this exhibition take this premise as a starting point. Whilst referencing the visual phenomena of an optical glow, this is opened up to interpretation through the artworks, offering a multifaceted repositioning of what after image might signify.