In her current exhibition, blue screen, Susan Schelle documents spaces, usually domestic, airless interiors that portray " the presence of absence", where items, an occupation or an event have been abandoned.

The title of the exhibition references the popular name given to the Microsoft Windows operating system screen when it’s in danger of crashing due to a system error. In each of her photographs, Schelle uses a standard contact sheet format to capture the image of an interior space as a whole, in a kind of panoramic link-up, then interrupts the continuity by striking it off with a blue screen.

The video, deep blue, suggests a similarly broken narrative. It uses three screens, displayed formally in a constructed frame of replicated wood, accompanied by the rhythmic sound of crickets. One screen shows water splashes, a second a channel marker, and the third a fire on an isolated island. These videos are broken by the image of a boat that moves in a continuous loop across the screens from left to right, marking the passage of time. Whereas expectations of an event build an emotional response, Schelle focuses our attention outside the moment. She attempts to confront the passage of time without pretense by inviting us to pay attention to action that usually remains on the periphery.