"The Tide is a marker for the passing of time. The change of pace created by time-lapse allows
for an observation that reveals something strange and unnerving in this familiar sight."

Liane works with animation and time-lapse, using 16mm film and transferring it to DVD. She is showing her new film 'Tide' (2003) in the exhibition, in which several hours of the incoming
tide are compressed into a few minutes. She says about this piece: "what is usually a calm movement of the sea surface, so gradual it is almost imperceptible to the naked eye, becomes an eerie dramatic event."

In 'Tide' and other landscape time-lapse work, Liane shows the constantly shifting fabric of reality. Time-lapse allows the capturing of thousands of individual images which describe a world that is never the same for more than an instant. In their approach Liana's films have an almost back-to-front relationship to landscape painting, in which a composite image is created from a moving subject.

Liane Lang graduated from Goldsmiths in 1998 and has since had her work exhibited in PS1 New York, Saatchi Gallery London and throughout the UK and Europe.