Did you spot the Gorilla?

Solo exhibition at Barn Galleries, curated by Gill Hedley.

A body of work developed during a three-year residency in Experimental Psychology Oxford exploring image perception, attention and temporality, embodied perception, inter-personal engagement and modes of address.

A wall of 100 Fresher photographs is set in counterpoint to a crowd of figure-like cylinders of photographs, Seeing being seen, which viewers can enter, move through and then, by exploring, apprehend as a whole. Similar in scale another immersive work is Film-strips (20.10.2018), a 50 m panorama which stretches scroll-like around the walls of the gallery, half of its length remaining hidden. The film-strip is part of a series taken at demonstrations for a second referendum. In much tighter focus, the original slide films are set on two lightboxes: three film-strips from anti-Brexit demonstrations and three from a new series: Did you spot the gorilla? is from a popular neuroscience video which tests our ability to notice an unexpected event, here the appearance of a gorilla, while focusing on an observational task.

In response to Did you spot the Gorilla, Hamann was invited to show a new configuration of these projects as part of a three-month solo exhibition At First Sight by Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto Ibaraki GLArt Gallery, 2019.

Artefacts:
THE BARN (gallery 1)
Loops, Seeing being seen installation
Photographs taken at Frieze Art Fairs, 2015-2017.
Rolled, standing as cylinders, digital print on paper.
Height 1.62m, diameters 0.50 and 0.30 m

THE GALLERY (gallery 2)
Freshers installation
Installation of 100 photographs of Fresher students at Oxford University, Camberwell College of Arts London, Waseda University, Tokyo, 2016-2018; and three reproductions of portraits from the art collection at St John's 2016-2018
Size approx 6.60m x 2.80m

THE STUDIO (gallery 3)
Film-strip (20.10.2018) installation
Three wall installation of a film-strip image
The film-strip is exposed in one rewinding movement with an analogue photographic camera at the demonstration for a people's vote in London 2018.
Blueback paper, industrial latex printing, 1.60 x 50 m (24 m visible)

Film-strips, demonstrations, Film-strip, 20.10.2018, Film-strip, 23.06.2018 and Film-strip, 9.09.2017 artefacts
35mm analogue slide films on LED lightbox

Film-strips, Did you spot the Gorilla? artefacts
35mm analogue slide films on LED lightbox
Film-strips taken of the popular neuroscience video which tests our ability to notice an unexpected event (the appearance of a gorilla) while focusing on an observational task.

Catalogue text:
Did you spot the Gorilla? Engagement and Omission in Sigune Hamann’s Art Work, written by Helen Sloan to be published by The Everyday Press 2019.