Nina Gilbert and Sean McKenzie’s work evolves from collaborative research into witnessed and recounted history, and an interrogation of place through immediacy. They share an impulse to investigate a subject by examining from a centrifugal viewpoint and developing an understanding through the gaze of the camera lens.

Versions explores impressions of seemingly everyday encounters through photographic images and text based works. Photographs portray and obscure candid moments within the urban environment while text takes on the form of enlarged, fragmented scripts to develop and displace narratives. The elusive nature of the scripts and photographs both allude to and mask their subjects, providing a platform for imagined scenarios.

The work follows on from Gilbert and McKenzie’s previous collaboration From night to day to night which uses footage taken from a landmark location, The Twelve Apostles alongside composed witness account statements and a series of found ‘test’ slides of everyday interiors and workspaces. Speculative language layered over repeated imagery perpetually shifts the position of the subject and the viewer.