A Rural Idyll
In the Forest Garden
Inner Landscapes
Absent Presence
Trace
Photomontage
Performative Drawing
Act of Listening
About
@hortus_silvam
2025
Moving image; sound
Inner landscapes of mind and body, real or imagined, and their capacity to contain and sustain us, to constrain and enslave us.
Single channel HD video | short film | colour | 2’40” | soundGallery | Site specific exhibition: continuous loop with sound
Ons Dagelijksch Brood is the phrase beautifully carved onto an old wooden plate found in a flea market many years ago in Bruges. The concept of ‘our daily bread’ is redolent with religious supplication and thanksgiving. Here, the bread dough disconcertingly breathes a vitality of its own. Its bulk expands and contracts before being vigorously pummelled with curious, whispered incantation. The power dynamic between bread and baker in this domestic ritual remains ambiguous; something carnal accompanies the exertions of kneading.
Location: Suffolk, UK
Selected work on the theme of inner landscapes. Landscapes of mind and body, where the intangible is transformed into visceral, poetic narratives; diverse in form and content, both reflective and responsive, allowing humour and the absurd to interact with melancholy and disquiet; to shimmer briefly in your imagination.
2025 screened as part of Dialogues by Sophie Standford (UK)
DIVFUSE Film Archive No.1 with a theme on domesticity.
Visceral, poetic narrative, routine, repetition, quotidien, domestic, disconcerting
© Sophie Standford