Simon Martin Wednesday Afternoon 2005 (Still from DVD projection) Courtesy The Artist and Counter Gallery, London enlarge Simon Martin Wednesday Afternoon 2005 (Still from DVD projection) Courtesy The Artist and Counter Gallery, London enlarge

For this Triennial Martin will be showing Wednesday Afternoon. The film is Narrated by an anonymous Canadian, is a meditation on time spent in museums. 'What I want to do,' explains the narrator, 'is capture the magic of wandering around looking at people and things. I want to do this without disrupting what is there or altering anything that might happen, suspending conclusions and resolutions, keeping things open, somehow remaining critical'.

Through a sequence of slow, almost static images shot in the British and the Victoria and Albert museums, the film depicts centuries worth of cultural wealth, questioning ideas of value and the ever increasing accumulation of 'stuff '.

Biography

Born in 1965 in Cheshire
1985–1989 The Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London

Selected Solo Exhibitions

Selected Group Exhibitions

Lives and works in London