A Rural Idyll
In the Forest Garden
Inner Landscapes
Absent Presence
Trace
Photomontage
Performative Drawing
Act of Listening
About
@hortus_silvam
1993-2021
Performance to camera; Super-8 film; moving image
Super-8mm colour and black and white film, silent
Cinematic screening: 8 min 27 sec
Gallery | Site specific exhibition: continuous silent loop
Performance: 20 mins
Scar is a moving image work made from a performance to Super-8mm film. The artist carefully washes the scar at her ankle with specially crafted bars of soap, slippery and dangerous to handle. The digital edit superimposes black and white with colour film. The action performed is repetitive, simple yet uncertain and precarious. The space is dark, domestic, interior and claustrophobic. Silence intensifies the desire to impose control on confused memories and events beyond control.
Location: Oxford
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