HelioTrope (2024)
Three-channel digital video on monitors, black & white, sound on speakers and headphones, 10mins looped.
HelioTrope is a multichannel moving image and sound installation that uses digital breakage to create an image that is consumed by itself. It is full of inversions - a sun (sign) that absorbs as well as emits, a mythologized but recognizable world full of unsettling and dreamlike solar imagery and a strobing city at night illuminated by dark light. HelioTrope is a metabolic sci-fi/horror that works on the senses. Inspired by recurring themes of haunted media in popular film and television, the work is self-reflexive of its own tropic nature and is grounded in histories of telecommunications technology and paranormal phenomena.
Joshua Roberts (b. 1987, Alaska) is a moving image and sound artist whose work explores ontological uncertainty and liminal states through the creation of speculative dream worlds. His works use oneiric visual and sonic languages to explore alternative logics and temporalities that remain enigmatic and open ended. Joshua constructs sensorial and affective spaces that situate the viewer between thresholds of perception and understanding; asking them to occupy places that are both uncanny and familiar. His works attempt to denature the quotidian and the commonplace to reveal strange and otherworldly agencies.
@the.aleph___
Three-channel digital video on monitors, black & white, sound on speakers and headphones, 10mins looped.
HelioTrope is a multichannel moving image and sound installation that uses digital breakage to create an image that is consumed by itself. It is full of inversions - a sun (sign) that absorbs as well as emits, a mythologized but recognizable world full of unsettling and dreamlike solar imagery and a strobing city at night illuminated by dark light. HelioTrope is a metabolic sci-fi/horror that works on the senses. Inspired by recurring themes of haunted media in popular film and television, the work is self-reflexive of its own tropic nature and is grounded in histories of telecommunications technology and paranormal phenomena.
Joshua Roberts (b. 1987, Alaska) is a moving image and sound artist whose work explores ontological uncertainty and liminal states through the creation of speculative dream worlds. His works use oneiric visual and sonic languages to explore alternative logics and temporalities that remain enigmatic and open ended. Joshua constructs sensorial and affective spaces that situate the viewer between thresholds of perception and understanding; asking them to occupy places that are both uncanny and familiar. His works attempt to denature the quotidian and the commonplace to reveal strange and otherworldly agencies.
@the.aleph___
Related exhibitions & events:
Group Exhibition: wolf MAD MAD, A.P.T Gallery 21-24 March 2024
Exhibition Talk, Sun 24-March at 2pm with the artists: Alina Gorlova, Sarah ElMasry and Joshua Roberts.
Postgraduate Degree Shows: Goldsmiths, University of London, 11-16 July 2024
Group Exhibition: wolf MAD MAD, A.P.T Gallery 21-24 March 2024
Exhibition Talk, Sun 24-March at 2pm with the artists: Alina Gorlova, Sarah ElMasry and Joshua Roberts.
Postgraduate Degree Shows: Goldsmiths, University of London, 11-16 July 2024