One, Lime Street

One, Lime Street: Installation view, Trade City, Manchester  Rose Butler & Kypros Kyprianou  Six-screen synchronised video installation, 22 minutes, loopOne, Lime Street: Installation view, Trade City, Manchester Rose Butler & Kypros Kyprianou Six-screen synchronised video installation, 22 minutes, loop


Kypros Kyprianou & Rose Butler 2005
Six channel video installation, 22 minutes, loop
funded by Arts Council England & Site Gallery, Sheffield

A series of parrallel journeys in the iconic glass lifts of the Lloyds building. People enter and leave one of six lifts and embark on interacting journeys, Each journey, filmed from inside the lift has had the background buildings and horizon digitally locked in position.

The result makes the lifts travel past the screens, an unexpected relationship between the camera, the vertical journey and the background perspectives result: a slippage between figure and ground.

Installation view, g39Installation view, g39


Shown at Site Gallery Sheffield 2005, G39 Cardiff, 2007, Trade City (Contemporary Art Manchester) 2009 and shortlisted for the Jerwood Moving Image Awards 2008