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Boyle Family present a new time lapse digital film work from their series 'Seeds for a Random Garden'.
Boyle Family first registered on the art scene with their spectator-participation 'events'
and 'happenings' during the 1960s, which included Joan Hills' Seeds
for a Random Garden, a series of suggestions on what to do
with seeds collected from random sites around Britain "without
the slightest consideration for beauty, utility, edibility, scent,
or horticultural interest".
For their new work, Charlton project 2006, Boyle Family
went to a randomly selected site in a street in the south-east
London district, swept up litter and 'planted' it in a box of clean
earth.
One photograph has been taken of this box every ten minutes, day
and night, since the 'planting' last May, with shooting due to
finish at the end of November 2006. By then, 28,800 photographic
frames will have been taken. The resulting unedited 8 hour
time-lapse film will be exhibited for the first time at construction
from 3 December 2006.
Although the project is a work in progress, with plants sprouting,
growing and dying, other elements and life cycles become apparent
as days get longer and nights shorter; shadows of leaves on nearby
trees emerge and disappear as clouds cover the sun and seasons
change.
This will be the first film in the Seeds for a Random Garden series,
an attempt to include plants and the process of growth into Boyle
Family's ongoing project to study, analyse and present reality. Previous
works include a piece created for their acclaimed retrospective
at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh (2003).
Boyle Family are perhaps best known for their meticulous three
dimensional casts of randomly selected sections of the surface
of the earth. They question whether we can trust our senses
and whether it is possible to make an accurate description of any
aspect of reality.
This is the first Boyle Family solo exhibition since Mark Boyle
died in May 2005. Joan Hills and their children, Sebastian and
Georgia Boyle, continue to work together. Boyle Family works
are also included in several forthcoming group exhibitions: Riflemaker
becomes Indica in London; Centre of the Creative Universe at
Tate Liverpool and Summer of Love at the Whitney, New
York.
More information on Boyle Family, including archive material, catalogue
essays and illustrated works can be found at www.boylefamily.co.uk
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