Saint Bathans Repetitions Alexandre Larose, 2016

In Saint Bathans Repetitions, an old mining cottage becomes the stage for a meditation not only on movement and gesture, but on the passage between interior and exterior, entrance and exit, window and world, youth and age, separation and return. Four handdeveloped film studies of this interior, exterior space are separated by one interlude that is a shimmering sepiasilver ode to the surrounding topography of dry earth, rock and mineral of the oncemined terrain. Like other of Laroses work, Saint Bathans Repetitions is a rumination on movement, a vision, much like some of the chronophotography of EtienneJules Marey, that distends and concentrates the flow of motionintime into a single space. Made by meticulously shooting dozens of superimposed sequences on the same role of film, the work suggests, on the one hand, impermanence and the transitory state of all things, and on the other, the felt traces as inexorable if evanescent celluloid impressionsthat a bodys passage always leaves behind.