Lynette Wallworth

Lynette Wallworth's London debut saw the BFI commissioning Hold: Vessel 2, 2007, enabling the artist to further develop her critically acclaimed piece Hold: Vessel 1, 2001. A large-scale installation that explored the intimacy and immensity of the natural world and our relationship to it, this work used moving image and technology to reveal the hidden intricacies of human immersion in the wide, complex world. The piece was activated by the viewer, the interaction being a metaphor for our connectedness within biological, social and ecological systems. With intimate moments of synchronised light and sound, the installation celebrated minutiae - microscopic views of marine life forms and telescopic imagery of deep space - leaving the visitor with a sense of communal participation within a complex system of which we are a part. The images in Hold: Vessel 2, 2007 come from current visioning technologies such as X-ray microtomography and telescopes operating on stabilised spacecraft allowing us to see intricate detail inaccessible to the human eye. A reflection upon our own place in a complex and starkly beautiful world, the work helps us explore the complex interconnectivity between things that we do not always see or know. Lynette Wallworth's Hold: Vessel 2, 2007 was the second of an ongoing series of art exhibitions at BFI Southbank exploring contemporary artists' use of the moving image.