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Stuart Pearson Wright's Maze ft Keira Knightley

'Maze' is a two-channel video installation by artist Stuart Pearson Wright. Featuring the artist and actress Keira Knightley, 'Maze' was originally exhibited in Stuart Pearson Wright's 2010 solo show '"I Remember You" at Riflemaker Gallery, London.

The film installation, Maze, casts artist Stuart Pearson Wright as an Elizabethan courtier trying to reach his lover, played by the actress Keira Knightley. The characters become increasingly frustrated and claustrophobic as they navigate the maze in their opulent costumes, calling bathetically to one another in the twilight.

Darkness descends and Edmund collapses into a foetal position as Constance recomposes herself and exits the frame calmly. Split across two screens that can not be watched simultaneously, the viewer must choose which character to follow: Romantic artist or fickle muse? Earnest male or inconstant female? Visual artist or Hollywood actress? If the two screens tell different stories, they can, all the same, both be inhabited at different times. Whilst we may not be all things all of the time, our identifications can shift at any moment. This restless sense of self and the drive to get into other peoples' skins as a way of getting into his own, is characteristic of Stuart's work.

See Stuart's latest exhibition here.

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