Jackie Castellano

My video work adopts an abstract approach that is concerned with surface, duration, focus, and rhythm. It has a visually compulsive, fluid, immersive quality, evident as the work gradually unfolds. Inhabiting a physical and psychological space, the work enables the viewer to project their own memories and experiences onto the moving images.

Currently, I am investigating the ‘fate’ of the digital moving image once various of its original characteristics such as colour and form are stripped away, and what remains are the central elements of the image where the pixels have been degraded, and the image is no longer identifiable.

My work is informed by a deep interest in the psychoanalytical theories of Sigmund Freud and Melanie Klein, the paintings of the early Abstract Expressionists, the Surrealists, and of Structuralist film makers such as Stan Brakhage, Len Lye, Paul Sharit.

BA First Class Honours. Fine Art. Central Saint Martins/UAL
MA Photography. London College of Communications/UAL
MA Psychoanalytic Observations. Tavistock/UEL

Selected shows:
2014 LUX13: Critical Forum at Enclave, Deptford, London (November)
2013 Open Studios. Harrow Road Studios, London
2012 Q-Art Annual Exhibition. APT, Deptford, London
2012 Open Studios. ACAVA, Blechynden Studios, London
2009 BA Fine Art Degree Show. Central Saint Martins/UAL
2008 Final Exhibition: MA Photography. London College of
Communication/UAL
2008 Spectre. Brighton Photofringe. Brighton
2008 Uncommon Ground. IAF. London
2008 Interim Show: MA Photography. London College of
Communication/UAL
2007 MA Photography. London College of Communication/UAL
2006 Landmarks. Lethaby Gallery, Central Saint Martins/UAL
2005 SQUASH: a museum of subjectivity, Galllery 147, London