GAVLAK

GAVLAK Los Angeles is pleased to present T. J. Wilcox, an eponymous solo exhibition of video, drawings and archival prints by the multidisciplinary artist. Thematically centered around a new film developed by the artist during the pandemic, Wilcox’s work uses the effects of process to explore a sense of place and identity informed by the transience of time. Across media, Wilcox employs visual techniques which evoke perceptions of time and space typically unavailable to the human eye. As a filmmaker, he enjoys constructing problems and entering into situations whereby one captures the unfilmable, allusively visualizing things that are otherwise impossible to see. This solo exhibition centers around a new film by Wilcox entitled Trace of Life. Using his preferred method of motion-picture collage (incorporating live-action footage, archival photography, digital and handmade animations, time-lapse and the developmental process of Super 8 film), Wilcox’s three-act video emerged from working through the exceptional context of global pandemic and quarantine. Absent the cacophonous aspects of daily life during lockdown, the artist became increasingly attenuated to time itself as a concept, reorienting his practice around identity and place. The resulting film is an investigation of mark-making in many guises, which hide in plain sight, whilst simultaneously shaping our perception of self and the space and time we inhabit, on an intangible and intimate level.