Turner Contemporary opens Sinema Amnesia, Mark Wallinger,on view 7 July 2012 – 5 August 2012.
Mark Wallinger, Sinema Amnesia, 2012, installation view at Turner Contemporary
Mark Wallinger’s Sinema Amnesia is a special viewing space overlooking the sea behind the gallery. It shows the film The Waste Land, an ever-changing, endless picture of unfolding time. A lens is fixed to the structure recording the view out to sea.
The recorded image is played back inside the space 24 hours later, like a delayed camera obscura. The film is inspired by T.S Eliot’s famous poem The Waste Land, partially written on Margate Sands and exploring the disconnected time of modernity. Wallinger’s time machine calls memory and perception into question. – www.turnercontemporary.org