Stratum 1, 2023 video, projector screen, 5 minutes.
Stratum 2, 2023video, projector screen, 16 minutes 30 seconds.
Simon Carter is a visual artist who works in the space between still and the moving image, graduating from the Manchester School of Art with a master’s degree in photography, concentrating primarily on moving image and sound. The final MA work was an installation that investigated thenrelationship of landscape and the stages of the ‘Brexit’ outcome. His research work has been centered around the use of allegory in image making to explore concepts of political and societal movement through lands cape.
Stratum (1 & 2) located around two Derbyshire limestone quarries, immerses itself in the daily activity, displaying the process and logistics that encompass the operation. Showed consecutively, the two videos explore the changing nature of the surface, texture, colors, light and sounds whilst monumentalizing the scale of the operation.
The work examines and reflects the notion of ‘skin’ and ‘abraded surface’ when the top layer comes away to be used as an overlay elsewhere the surface left behind becomes the new skin. The cycle repeats itself, the notion of geological skin as a dermis or layer, which can be cut and renewed, placed elsewhere. Organic materials that had ‘skin’, made stone over time, being remade.
