Without You, 2003/2004, single channel digital video, duration: 10:40
About the work
I made Without You at the end of 2003 beginning of 2004. It was a work commissioned by the National Gallery of Victoria to be part of an exhibition in Japan. As we had to have subtitles made for another video work of mine in the show – which was very costly – I needed to come up with something that didn’t rely on dialogue or voice-over, which much of my previous work had done. I wanted to consider in this new work how others inform and almost become part of our selves – whether through memory or interpersonal relationships.
I made still images from digital video footage which were then cut by hand with a scalpel. The collaged elements were then re-shot at two frames per second to form an old – school style animated morphing. Without You questions the boundaries where our selves begin and end – an idea that is communicated using a purely visual language.
About the artist
Born Melbourne 1970
Lives & works Melbourne
Represented by Sutton Gallery (Melbourne) and Kaliman Gallery (Sydney)
David Rosetzky is a Melbourne based artist. He creates photo-based, video and sculptural installations that deal with issues of identity and subjectivity within a global capitalist culture. His work combines documentary and fictional styles of image making and is influenced by cinema and popular screen culture such as television and advertising.
Rosetzky was the inaugural winner of the Anne Landa Art Award for moving image and new media art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2005 for his work Untouchable (2003).
He has been included in numerous group exhibitions both nationally and internationally including: Raised by Wolves, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth (2007); Crowds / Conversations / Confessions, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada (2006); 2006 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: ‘21st Century Modern’, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; 2004 Australian Culture Now, ACMI, Melbourne (2004); Living Together is Easy, Art Tower Mito, Mito, Japan (2004); Face Up, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum for the present, Berlin (2004); New 03, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2003); BitterSweet, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (2002); Screen Life, Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid (2002); Connections, Contemporary Artists from Australia, House of Croatian Artists, Zagreb (2001); hybrid <life> forms, Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam (2001); Rent, Overgaden, Copenhagen and ACCA, Melbourne (2000). Solo Exhibitions include Nothing Like This, Kings ARI, Melbourne (2007), Worlds Apart, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne (2006); Self Defence, Contemporary Art Centre of S.A, (2005); Living Together is Easy, Hero apartments, Melbourne (2002); Weekender, Kaliman Gallery, Sydney, (2002); Custom Made, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne (2000)
Rosetzky is a lecturer in the Photography Department at the Victorian College of the Arts and was the founding director of 1st Floor artists and writers space, Melbourne, 1994-2002. He is currently undertaking a Masters of Fine Art at Monash University in the department of Fine Arts, Caulfield. He is represented by Kaliman Gallery, Sydney and Sutton Gallery Melbourne.
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