Moving Image covers artistic work based on film, video, animation, projection and other time-based visual media. It includes both screen-based pieces and installations in which motion, duration, sound and spatial presentation are central to the experience.
Rae-Yen Song’s new installation at FACT Liverpool contains something unusually literal at its centre: a living pond. The exhibition •~TUA~• ?? •~MAK~•, opening on 18 September 2026, combines sculpture, sound and moving image within an imagined subaquatic world shaped partly by the artist’s family histories and diasporic mythology. Cameras observe microscopic life and movement inside…
Ayoung Kim’s Al-Mather Plot 1991 begins with an actual building in Riyadh. The Al-Mather Housing Complex was constructed by the Korean company Hanyang during a period when large numbers of South Korean workers travelled to the Gulf. It remained largely unused until the Gulf War, when displaced Kuwaitis took refuge there. Kim’s own father had…
Darya Andijan’s new 2026 film Do You Know That I’m With You begins with a figure who has almost disappeared from cultural memory. Travelling through Central Asia, Andijan searches for traces of Gülem, described as a forgotten goddess of carpet weaving from the Uyghur region. The 23-minute work combines travel, poetic voices, ritual and ancestral…
Isaac Julien rarely asks us to watch a film on one screen. His installations distribute moving images across several screens so that editing begins to happen spatially as well as temporally. A character may disappear from one image and appear somewhere else in the room. Two events can run simultaneously. The viewer has to decide…
Jasper Marsalis has made a contemporary landscape exhibition without travelling to photograph the landscapes himself. In Still Life, currently at Chisenhale Gallery in London until 6 September 2026, a large screen displays live images drawn from unsecured internet-connected cameras around the world. Lakes appear. Roads. Hills. Parking lots. Agricultural spaces. Occasionally animals or people pass…
In 1831 an underwater volcanic eruption created a temporary island between Sicily and Tunisia. Britain, France, Spain and the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies quickly became interested in claiming it. Then the island disappeared beneath the Mediterranean again. Elisa Giardina Papa turns this strange historical episode into She Flickered In and Out of History, a…
Carolyn Lazard’s current exhibition Long Take, at Stanford’s Cantor Arts Center until 13 December 2026, begins with dance but quickly moves beyond the idea that a video simply records a performance. The central work Leans, Reverses was developed with dancer Jerron Herman and poet and artist Joselia Rebekah Hughes. The project exists through a dance…
Cao Fei’s work has repeatedly used moving image, virtual worlds and digital culture to examine the speed of social change in China. Her major current exhibition Testimonies to the Near Future opened at Kunstmuseum Basel | Gegenwart on 28 August 2026. The museum describes it as her first solo exhibition in Switzerland and her largest…
