Tolmie MacRae

Tolmie MacRae explores the multiplicity of existence predominantly through the medium of video. His works have explored themes of meditation, transcendence and immanence by investigating the flow of light and time on people and landscapes generating visual and temporal abstractions. He plays with opposing ideas and then fuse them together. Rather than transcendence and immanence or creation and destruction as binary opposites he explores the tension of these seemingly competing states of existence as combined dualities. It is not a political or spiritual investigation for the artist but rather an individual exploration of the state of existence.

What he aims to achieve through his artistic practice is to break the perception of linear time and have an audience accept a piece of moving image (time-based art) as something infinite. Video allows him to catalogue time and space into a language of frames. Once captured, he can play and challenge their linear hierarchy, distorting it, pulling those moments and perspectives through each other. Like the cubists trying to represent every perspective at once, video allows the artist to pull each of these catalogued moments through themselves to paradoxically see each frame at once, whilst also allowing things to evolve and flow over time. His artistic technique is about allowing people’s movements and actions to fold upon themselves so that past and present meet in various layers (generating a visual and temporal abstraction of the moment and the body). How can our bodies be manipulated into new representations for self discovery?

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Website: https://tolmiemacrae.com/

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