The Unearthings
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” | 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 of mind and body, inspired by the ephemeral, intangible, liminal encounters with moments of magical thinking which move on the edge of our senses, transformed into a visceral, poetic narrative.
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