Category: Moving Image Art
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If you have ever felt like the rear end of a car is frowning at you, or if you have a special item of clothing that you wear for good luck, it is likely that you have experienced apophenia. This is the human tendency to perceive patterns and form conclusions based around unrelated sets of…
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As the door of Victoria Miro opens to reveal the bright lights of the expansive gallery, the viewer is immediately drawn in, like a moth to a flame. The fluorescent glow beckons, and it may take a moment to notice the dimly lit stairs tucked to the left. With no prescribed order to follow, one…
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Multimedia artist Joe Moss turns Matt’s Gallery into a playroom for surveillance technology in his latest intertextual, multi-verse installation. Moss’ oeuvre often deals in sculptures, particularly smaller models that evoke themes of cuteness and vulnerability. In Automated Fantasy Procedure, two small drones take their place, flying overhead, recording a path shown on the two screens,…
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Umi Ishihara’s solo exhibition Nocturnal Melody, her first in Europe, follows with a curious ambivalence the lives and ambitions of two dancers in a Shibuya gentleman’s club, inviting viewers into Tokyo’s seedy alternative nightlife scene. Across two galleries, Ishihara builds a colourful, kaleidoscopic account of this nocturnal world. She intersperses documentary footage with direct camera addresses by…
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United at NıCOLETTı last autumn, Valentin Noujaïm brings his urban enigmas Pacific Club (2022) and To Exist Under Permanent Suspicion (2024), where they were joined by Demons to Diamonds, fresh off its gallery tour in 2025, to complete the artist’s La Défense Trilogy. While the films attempt to mystify a topic widely written about, the…
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The first two parts of George Finlay Ramsay’s exploration of community, ritual, and the documentary’s role in mythicisation are screening as part of the Film London Jarman Award 2025 shortlist. Beginning somewhat on the nose, one slowly realises that Flesh, Wax and Glass Pt I & II is investigating more than just a blood-letting ritual.…
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Until the end of this month, the latest multi-screen installation project from filmmaker Naeem Mohaiemen, Through a Mirror, Darkly, plays at Albany House in Westminster, an old office building deep in the administrative centre of the UK. The building is opposite the Ministry of Justice, and used to house the British Transport Building. But this…
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Concept artist Ilê Sartuzi brings A Crime, a Confession and a Trade, the culmination of his Sleight of Hand project, to NıCOLETTı. A two-channel video installation that played at São Paulo’s Museu de Arte Contemporânea a couple of years ago, Sleight of Hand left a lot of critics confused; not only asking “did that just…
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The ubiquity of images outside of art and film is something we often associate with the modern age. Smartphones, LED advertisements, and CCTV are increasingly at the centre of discussions in art exhibitions and films. But the ideas that form these exhibitions predate the technologies that facilitate them. The latest installation at Hackney’s Peer Gallery,…
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Alexis Kyle Mitchell’s first solo exhibition The Goal of Our Health delivers its philosophy to visitors in two parts. As you walk in, you’re first met with two miniature screens, aptly titled Plates (2025). These show a series of 16mm ‘screen tests,’ testing the ‘ideal’ body in motion. This is according to a 1920s book…
