A new series of works shot in Hong Kong and Melbourne add another layer to Daniel Crooks’ aesthetic and intellectual investigation into the nature of time. In this iteration time is represented as a helix appropriating the physical (and perhaps mental) routine of people moving in and out of their places of work. Filmed from across fifty sites the collection is a visual metaphor for the cyclical nature of existence. Crooks leads with mathematical and digital studies of sine waves and parabolas in his minds’ eye as well as the parable that how you spend time is how you spend your life.
Daniel Crooks, still from ‘Parabolic’, 2017. Courtesy the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
Anna Schwartz Gallery
Until 1 April, 2017
Melbourne
