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The Passing Between catalogue includes and essay by Nicole Ridgway, and a DVD with video documentation and an interview with the artists (videos by Sean Kafer and music by Michael Szpakowski). Videos also available for viewing online here.

In Distill Life, Nathaniel Stern and Jessica Meuninck-Ganger approach both old and new media as form. They permanently mount translucent prints and drawings directly on top of video screens, creating moving images on paper. They incorporate technologies and aesthetics from traditional printmaking - including woodblock, silk screen, etching, lithography, photogravure, etc - with the technologies and aesthetics of contemporary digital, video and networked art, to explore images as multidimensional. Their juxtaposition of anachronistic and disparate methods, materials and content - print and video, paper and electronics, real and virtual - enables novel approaches to understanding each. The artists work with subject matter ranging from historical portraiture to current events, from artificial landscapes to socially awkward moments.

Passing Between was Nathaniel Stern’s second solo exhibition at Gallery AOP in Johannesburg, South Africa, and Jessica Meuninck-Ganger's first. Here they show 14 pieces from their ongoing series of collaborative works, affectionately entitled Distill Life.