Poems

Known for his textile and sound work, Christopher Robin Duncan has recently turned to photography, rediscovering with a simple pleasure and sincerely the medium that he had put aside for a while. Marked by the question of time and nourished by an intuitive and direct relationship with the natural elements, Duncan's practice unfolds again through the use of photography. Using a half-frame camera which, by dividing the film in two, doubles time and space by the same action, Duncan creates interstices - the time of a heartbeat, of a fraction of a second - in which he slides, moves imperceptibly, creating suspended moments. It is a delicate relationship with time that Duncan offers us with Poems. We find there the links with the seasons and natural cycles, we find air, water, wind. Like a volume of poetry, where rhymes respond and echo each other, the lo-fi but precious views that Duncan collects are combined in Poems, resonate far away and eventually form a complete cycle, a revolution perfect around its solar heart. And, like the wind that blows on the views photographed, we too can experience the pages not linked, rearranging their rhymes into visual sequences each time re-imagined.