‘Window Shopping’ by Nicki-joe Baxter (6th Dec – 13th Dec)
In this installation Nicki-joe has emulated conventions of television shop display using the medium of collage, photography, and film. Nicki-joe has produced large scale photographs of television screens (which have been extracted from his own family photographs) and displayed them alongside a television playing footage from ‘Forrest Gump’ and ‘Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey’. The movies included contain real life imagery that has been carefully placed into the feature films. Nicki-joe’s televisions are also carefully extracted images which are then placed into new narratives.
The still and moving images present the audience with a sort of double take. At first glance the piece will look like a television shop window display, provoking the viewer to want to enter the shop. But at a closer look you the viewer become aware that the televisions aren’t real and that there is no shop. With it being the Christmas period on and off the screen, the installation only viewable through the glass, Nicki-joe is asking the viewer to re-consider what it is they’re seeing and engaging with at that particular time and place.
