Solo show
4 June - 21 September 2008
Traceurs: to trace, to draw, to go fast is a collection of twenty black and white films created using a thermal imaging camera. Each film captures a moment in which traceurs (practitioners of parkour) come into physical contact with the urban fabric. The camera, which sees the world in terms of temperature rather than light, makes visible the glowing white heat residue transferred from hands, fingers and feet ontothe surfaces that the traceurs nimbly leap onto, run across and spring off. The films are screened simultaneously as part of a multi-channel video installation.
Commissioned by Westminster City Council.
Related publication: Traceurs: to trace, to draw, to go fast, Essay by Richard Grayson
Related review: Martin Coomer, Traceurs: to trace, to draw, to go fast, Time Out
Related exhibition: Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, Canada.
A documentary film by Julie Angel, which follows the making of the artwork, was screened at the Institute of Contemporary Art, London and later as part of the London Festival of Architecture's film programme curated by the British Film Institute.