In the Balance isn’t the only new MCA exhibition to get excited about. Upstairs, there’s a new solo show by renowned UK artist Runa Islam, also curated by Rachel Kent.
Islam is a Bangladesh-born film artist, strongly inspired by French new wave cinema, whose work engages with the philosophy and technology of film and representation itself. The whole space, in fact, seems like one big, immersive allegory for cinema: the lights are down and everything is eerily silent, apart from the incessant hum and clicking of the projector equipment, which is positioned around the exhibition like sculpture in its own right. “She uses space in a very structural way,” says Kent. “There are a number of works constituting this exhibition, but as a whole they create one art installation. Each film represents a performance or experiment or composition within the larger installation.”
It’s a collection of Islam’s film installations from the past seven years, including Assault, in which a man is interrogated with colour and light; the time-stretching Be The First To See What You See As You See, which sees a young woman smashing up porcelain objects in a gallery; and Magical Consciousness, in which Islam films the reverse-side of a Japanese screen, capturing shadows, reflections and illuminated light. Darryn King
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