Gerard Byrne, Jielemeguvvie guvvie sjisjnjeli: Film inside an image

1/125 of a Second, Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, UK, 16 January – 12 March 2016; Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), Melbourne, 1 October – 10 December 2016; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 8 April – 3 September 2017

This publication focuses Gerard Byrne's video piece Jielemeguvvie guvvie sjisjnjeli: Film inside an image (2016). Filmed in a Swedish natural history museum, Byrne's film studies a 19th-century diorama of wildlife. An immersive representation of Nordic wilderness, populated by taxidermied birds and animals, the 19th-century diorama is a form of representation that anticipates the invention of both photography and cinema. Byrne's video work thus stages a confrontation between the photographic image and 
the forms of representation that it supplanted and raises questions as 
to what comes next.

Editor: Fiona Venables
Designer: Peter Maybury
Format: 165 mm x 210 mm portrait, 48pp, Hardcover, clothbound
Illustrations: 50 full-colour illustrations
Print run: 500
Publisher: Published in the UK by Mead Gallery, University of Warwick. Published in Australia by Monash University Museum of Art.
Language: English
ISBN (UK) 978-0-9934245-1-9 / (Australia) 978-0-9923754-9-2