Lockhart began by constructing a portrait studio in a small rural community, and extending an open invitation to local children, and then by immersing herself in their environment and noting the complexity of their interactions. Her highly descriptive, almost painterly portraits, taken over the course of several years, abjure narration for the pleasure of the gaze and the notio...
Khalil, Shaun, A Woman Under the Influence is a 16-minute film divided into three parts. The first two sections refer to make-up tests, which are often used in the making of Hollywood films, and the third section is a dramatic sequence based on a scene from the film A Woman Under the Influence by John Cassavetes. Framed from the chest up by a static, silent camera, the first se...
Lockhart's largest-scale work, set in a nineteenth-century opera house in Manaus, Brazil, films an audience that is a cross-section of the city’s indigenous and European population. From a fixed camera hidden on the theater’s stage, Lockhart captures the audience in a single, unedited thirty-minute take as it sits waiting and listening to a piece of minimalist contemporary musi...
‘Podwórka’ captures six groups of neighbourhood youth as they play in seemingly deserted yards, offering an intimate portrait of daily life in Lód′z, Poland. Shot with a fixed camera, this single-channel video projection highlights American artist Sharon Lockhart’s concern for the interrelationship between the still and the moving image.
Evolving from past works for which Lockh...