Darren Almond - Principle of Moments

Another new Darren Almond edition has been release by The White Cube gallery, Principle of Moments.

2010
The Principle of Moments - Manadagur : 11.54
Framed c-print
Size of image: 4.3 x 6.5 cm
Size of frame: 33.1 x 22.1 cm
Signed by the artist
A photograph is available of every minute of every hour of the day over the course of a week, around the longest day of the year. Each photograph is a unique work. The purchaser is free to select the image that represents that minute.
£350

At first glance the print size of this edition makes no sense, but when seen in context of the installation it becomes clear.


Darren Almond’s ’Principle of Moments’, is a series of time-lapse photographs depicting the wild, green landscape of the Faroe Islands, close to the Arctic Circle.
A photograph was taken for every minute of every hour of the day over the course of a week, around the longest day of the year.

This coastline's extre+me geographical location means that it experiences very diverse weather. During this period the light barely disappears, but the extreme weather creates striking results: a mountain appears and then disappears, clouds create rain that then feeds the waterfall and the sun sinks behind the mountain so the sea is obscured by shadow.




At £350 I think I will pass on this one, it seems more interesting conceptually than as a thing to own.