Q-Art London

BA Fine Art Graduate, Nottingham Trent University

‘ADR’

In “ADR” Pathan uses the language of filmmaking and the production attributes inherent in video to self-consciously discuss the distinctions between video art and cinema. The monologue pulls focus towards the authority of the speaker to interrogate the authenticity of their message.

Despite its ability to confirm the truth of an image, language can act as an artifice to disrupt our preconceptions by contradicting an image, provoking thought about its authenticity. Using mimesis translation and disguise I try to create a narrative whose structure, stability and meaning alters on each viewing in order to demonstrate how many gradients there may be between real and fake, between original and copy.

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