29th February 2016
Her films and photographs explore a sense of self which is transformative and fluid. At the core of her practice is a concern with mortality and the materiality of the filmmaking process. The majority of her films take place within the confinements of domestic space, where the grounded reality of the house itself becomes a portal to a complex and multi-layered psychical realm. In her explorations of the animate and inanimate, her work probes a journey between mirror and surface, in which questions of representation are negotiated via the feminine, the queer or the dead.
Her recent production funded by the Arts Council, a 75 minute 16mm b/w film, Magic Mirror, explores the relationship between word and image in Claude Cahun’s writing from her book Aveux Non Avenus (Confessions Denied) through a re-staging of her photographs.