SAM JURY

Statement

Jury's work explores the psychological impact of film based imagery and examines how its ubiquity shapes our understanding of society, and thus self, often through observation and/or idealization of others. Jury works across the medias of painting, photography, video and installation, whilst navigating the gaps and fissures between moving and still imagery, painting and film. Starting with found and staged photographs or documented performances, she uses the editing process to suspend linear narrative and present a highly manipulated scene that hovers between specific time, place or genre; a world made up of associative readings, that calls upon a global or collective memory to measure reaction and meaning. The manifestation of these concerns is the compressed or 'panoptic' image created by combining a multitude of moving and still imagery to form one single work; using photography and video as a means of absorbing the world at large.