A Rural Idyll
In the Forest Garden
Inner Landscapes
Absent Presence
Trace
Photomontage
Performative Drawing
Act of Listening
About
@hortus_silvam
1991-2025
Performance; site specific; film; writing
Super-8mm black and white film transferred to single-channel video with composed stereo soundscape
Cinematic screening: 2 min 26 sec
Gallery | Site specific exhibition: Continuous loop with sound
flaying water from its stagnation
onto the plaster palimpsest
history silently watches
without trace
Atopia is a performance work in a derelict building in London’s Bermondsey Street in 1994. The performance was unannounced, durational and ended with exhaustion. It was filmed in silence by the artist, in the decay of the factory floor, with stagnant water, moss and fungal slime. This work is one of a series where the artist used her hair to perform an act in a redolent location that leaves no trace.
Location: 145 Bermondsey Street, London
A performance work from the series Trace, made in the 1990s, documented on film and further explored through the transfer to analogue and digital media.
scar, trauma, memory, water
© Sophie Standford