Gun is the reduction of an action to the human hand –a search for reality. It is an exercise in futility and a map of the accumulation of debris over time. The absurdity of throwing ash acts as a metaphor for man’s obsession with the unattainable, offering a glimpse at base human nature. The aggression of the gun is echoed by the hand’s sudden arrival into the frame, yet its insufficiency is quickly revealed by the ephemeral nature of the ash. Gun demonstrates a discontinuity in the paradigm of cause and effect, where the hostile action produces a passive result.
(Gun is a collaboration between Dominic Hoang Nguyen & David Whitaker)