Between You and Me

by Micah and Whitney Stansell

Presented as a multi-screen installation, Between You and Me is a kaleidoscopic view of small single moments that seem to be happening just before or just after the dramatic moments. The film follows six characters as their paths intersect and are connected by the objects they carry—objects that help to define them. These characters inhabit the vestigial spaces of personal interaction in an “online” world –and the strain in the interactions is palpable. These interactions are daily occurrences, repeatable cycles; the ebb and flow of library shelves, the constant stream of letters in a post office or coffee in a diner, a pattern of failed relationships. These are the things that happen daily and accumulate. These are the things that happen Between You and Me.

Between You and Me premiered at Flux Night 2010 and is presented at the Atlanta Art Fair as part of Flux Projects’s 15th anniversary.

Flux Film 002: Micah and Whitney Stansell

Proper Medium followed the Stansells as they created the film and prepared for the installation.  This Flux Film gives viewers a behind-the-scenes look at this process.

Between You and Me at Flux Night 2010

About the Artists

Micah and Whitney Stansell are frequent collaborators who live and work in Atlanta, Georgia. Their body of work ranges from fibers, sculpture, painting and drawing to single and multichannel film and video works, as well as installations. The Stansells’ work often explores ideas of family history, narrative traditions, and binary relationships that pull from contemporary issues influenced and informed by environment and location. Much of their interest in narrative stems from the rich Southern tradition of storytelling.

Exhibiting in galleries, museums, contemporary art centers and film festivals, the Stansells’ work has been featured in cities around the world including Beijing; Vienna; Miami, Florida; New York; Los Angeles, California; and Atlanta, Georgia.