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Try Hard and The Grass Is Always Greener On The Other Side
Elvon Young and Davor Popadich
July 5 - 15, 2005
Gallery One
Follow the speed of light
The text accompanying Elvon Young & Davor Popadich’s video work Grass is always greener on the other side is a great stream-of-consciousness trippy rant, punctuated by transitions, shifts in pace and evocative conjunctions of sensations and observations. In the video the movement and constant unfolding of the colour flares elicits the feeling of speeding through a city in a car at night in the rain. Except that your field of vision keeps morphing into a kaleidoscopic pattern, with a constantly changing axis, which throws you even more off-kilter. Is the title a stoner reference, or does it play with romantic notions of the best experience being just outside of your sphere, beyond your grasp? It is possible to become mesmerised by these morphing images, taken to a state of reverie where lost loves or drunken states of bliss can be remembered, touched or tasted.
Young and Popadich are practicing architects and Young lectures in Spatial Design at a tertiary level. They have been working together on video works for four years, including three works produced in collaboration with artist Mladen Bizumic. Grass is always greener on the other side was commissioned for the New Zealand Institute of Architects ‘Provocative Materials’ exhibition at Objectspace, Auckland, 2005, which begs the question whether the work, and in particular the title, might relate to the respective freedoms and challenges of architectural and visual art practice?