Spanning 2014-2016 and comprising of 4 hysterical episodes: Vesmir Peklo (2014), 17:17 (2015), Widows (2016) and Flood (2016), each film takes its visual cues from the elements - Earth, Fire, Air, Water, they operate as visual metaphors for emotional reaction to traumatic events: loss of home, car crash, death of a loved one, natural disaster. The films portray crises in motion, cataloguing and cross-examining the correspondence between histrionics and ‘pure’ emotion, the bleary territory between the dramatic and the genuine. The project serves as a re-formatting of the presentation of female hysteria.
This exhibition is presented as a 4-screen installation, whilst a large-scale sculpture lays out in material form the landscape of the project. Clay, sand, mud, metal and various detritus integrate to disrupt the otherwise two dimensional installation, fabricating a rupture in the projections, the world of the films seeping out into the gallery. September 1st -12th
