“From the Super 8 and VHS revolutions of the 1970s and 80’s to the digital hyper connectivity of our present moment, video art and moving image has always operated at a crossroads: high and low, visceral and conceptual, personal and political." says Jefferson Hack, who curated the exhibition with Mark Wadhwa. "In Paradigm Shift, we see how great artists inspire us to engage with storytelling through screens differently: for us to feel more, imagine more and recover our senses.”
Edited by Justin Juice Black.
Drawing on the long history of West African and Caribbean traditions, the work follows a Masquerade moving among the living- its voice both witness and guide.
The film shifts between the gaze of the onlooker and the presence of the spirit itself, blurring the line between subject and object. In opening space for a shared perspective, it invites viewers to reconsider how they see themselves, and to listen for the echoes that bridge perception and presence.