Lenard Giller

Presented by The Shop, Sadie Coles HQ and curated by Ben Broome, Revisions is a newly composed multi-channel installation by Lenard Giller. For Revisions Giller has chosen to adapt what was, in its first iteration, one work, choosing instead to present the piece in three component parts: Sound, Time & Image.

Constituting image, the feature length film Productions consists of 360 found images - all stills from Disney’s Cinderella - which have been scanned and re-inserted inside the exact time-frame during which they first appeared in the 1950’s mov ...

Revisions is a version of Productions which in turn is a mutation of the 360 Panini sticker album images, likewise a mutation of the 1950 Disney classic Cinderella: itself an appropriation of the 1812 folk tale collection Grimms’ Fairy Tales by Brothers Grimm. This is not a work about Cinderella rather Cinderella is the subject, the vehicle through which Giller investigates alteration and transformation of aural storytelling and folklore in modernity and through contemporary media.

Productions shares the length of its cinematic counterpart - something the viewer is constantly reminded of by Timestamp (107232). Drawing from the minimalists of the 60’s and 70’s, Giller’s intention was to make a work that can be consumed in one minute or one hour: similar to minimalist sculpture, a work that is as empty as it is full with no hierarchy between either metric thus confronting the viewer with no clear method of consumption.

Composed by Lara Laeverenz, Soundtrack (01:14:28) accompanies Productions: existing largely as low-frequency white noise interspersed with snippets of original sound from Cinderella. Collaborating with Laeverenz, Giller used the mechanical sound of a 16 mm projector (employed to show Productions in its first iteration) as a starting point to create a score that emulated and amplified the muted resonance of digital equipment used in Revisions - eliciting a labour happening behind the scenes.

Likening the piece to a “photographic work within a time based ...