Neil Cunningham is a visual artist working within a lens-based media. His work is concerned with cinematic tropes and techniques and the perceptual effects of these elements.
Neil Cunningham’s work addresses cinematic time and the temporality while paying homage to classical cinematic tropes. Post-production editing is key to the works, they use a series of filters to emulate the degradation of data. The way in which we store memories and the way in which digital data is stored have similar characteristics. We passively process our waking time when we sleep, a reel of moving images and sounds play like a slideshow in our mind.
Drawing heavily from contemplative cinema, his durational works invite the viewer to reflect on moments frozen in time with a daydream like quality. The work serves as a testament to the inescapable march of time, highlighting our inability to control its flow and emphasizing our role as passive observers.