Folded Eight Times
30 March - 2 April 2023
Opening: Thursday 30th March 18:00-20:00
A group exhibition featuring recent work by students on the Artists’ Film & Moving Image Masters at Goldsmiths, University of London, including: Wiebe Bouwsema, Syd Farrington, MD. Zihan Karim, Soyoung Kim, Mimi Koku, Finn Mulford, Tim Tokley and RcTeresa.
Image Credit:
Mimi Koku, I Heard A Sound That Carries, 2023, Video Still.
Wiebe Bouwsema One Two (2023) is a video installation playing with the physicality of the viewer, the space, the screens and its multiple perspectives. Rooted in enchantment by the phenomenon of reflection, the work explores the relationship between the virtual space of the image and the actual spatial space of its surroundings. Two separate domains or inextricably connected? Wiebe Bouwsema (1995) studied Fine Arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, their work spans a range of media, from sculpture, painting, and photography to installation and video art with a poetic approach towards reality that looks to interrupt the perceived boundaries between what is real and not, human and nature, past and present. @w.iebe https://www.wiebebouwsema.com
Syd Farrington A full moon in winter. A questioning of truth behind the folklore surrounding a full moons presence on personal histories, thoughts and behaviours. In Our Sleep takes effected dreams and subconscious to reflect upon the pasts place in our present and its relation to location. Notions of romanticism are accentuated when present within the English landscape, ruminating upon our innate binding to nature and the natural world. Syd Farrington is an artist and filmmaker working with celluloid. His work often contains fragments of myth and folklore as an entry point into creating personal and reflective films. Often hand processed, he merges an analogue and digital process, frequently drawing upon the interrelation of dreams and personal memories, whilst presenting a questioning of our innate connection to nature and the history of the English landscape. Born in England, He lives and works in London. @syd_farrington www.sydfarrington.com
Zihan Karim A true event that happened in the past. Hearing the circumstance, how do we keep imagining the space-time-person of that event from a distance and how can that imagination be visualized through more events or processes? The video installation ‘stab in the dark’ (2023) revolves around the reality of a Bengali applying as an asylum seeker in the UK. There is a proverb in Bengali, “Andhkare Dhil Chora” translated as “achieving objectives with assumptions”, this work involves a process of metaphorically viewing events from different perspectives through various dialogues, performance videos, sounds, and installation. Zihan Karim (1986 Chittagong, Bangladesh) explores the subtleties of time, space, light, and societal issues through the syntax of video, space, projection, and objects. Affected by the current political situation in Bangladesh, he focuses on the concept of disappearing, hopes to create dialogues between the reality (or attempted to-be truth) and the imaginary. @zihan.karim http://zihankarim.blogspot.com/
Soyoung Kim Digital sensors surround us, how can we trust that they guarantee our convenience and safety? Somewhere between privacy, protection and invasion, the digital video and sound work ‘#00FF00’ (2023) shows a jarring green landscape. Green politics are applied to our digital ecosystem, where the meaning of green is changing towards efficiency and optimisation. This voice of green is whispering to us and pulling our senses into its illusion. Soyoung Kim is an artist from Seoul, currently based in London. She explores the subtle tensions between the visible and invisible, questioning the things have been tacitly agreed or taken for granted. With making distancing between camera movement and the object, her works break down common codes from certain images focusing on intrinsic texture and respiration. @ssoyynngg www.soyngk.com
Mimi Koku I heard a sound that carries. Crosses planes, a sonic wave kinetic and potential. An ancient divination. I wander, dance along its coils in search of mothers’ gardens. With body, breath and voice to move - Polyrhythms, circles turning, winds and words and hands - in earth, turned over. They spoke to drums to summon gods; I hope to summon futures And memories and wishes too. With time, a place somewhere between and hopeful blooms. What was and is and will become; A song of many voices. Mimi Koku is a Nigerian-born interdisciplinary artist and musician working in the UK and Nigeria. Employing the moving image, sound, sculpture and nature, she interrogates both personal and communal archives and histories, investigates Yoruba cosmology, philosophy & spirituality, and adopts elements of fantasy and non-linear temporality, which culminates in a multi-sensory, poetic and reflective yet critical and de-colonial praxis. @onfilmbymimi http://mimikoku.com/
Finn Mulford Through a nostalgic lens, the video installation ‘Channel 9’ (2023) questions the effect that mass media and surveillance has on our individuality. Displayed on a CRT TV, the video collage evokes the feeling of skipping through channels to capture the cold but comforting feeling of a late night TV glow. Finn Mulford is a filmmaker with a background in documentary, he is interested in how people respond emotionally to a rapidly changing world using nontraditional cameras and new technology to capture feelings of liminality and nostalgia. @friendly.co.uk
RcTeresa Where two moons embrace each other, I see tape. From the blank of the tape I see the hallucination which nourishes the boundless Spectacle. I chase the light and shadow but it's like a mirage. Fragile, illusory, and dreamlike. I heard murmur coming from the mirror. where? where? RcTeresa is an artist filmmaker who is dedicated to exploring cross-cultural aesthetics and philosophies and finding cultural commonalities, who works with frame-by-frame hand-drawn animation. Tape, is her constant source of inspiration to create "Tapewo", a de-functional, visual symbolic system. For this exhibition, RcTeresa will present a new animation integrating sculpture and film: a dreamcore confession, where a protagonist gazing at the tape considers concepts such as self, others, experience and reality. @rcteresa_rc
Tim Tokley Cumber-Gut (2023) fluctuates between material record and poetic narrative, an abridgement of East Mersea. The work is grounded in ecological and anthropological inquiry, employing voices of the Island and reflections on its changing landscapes. Cumber-Gut is a meditation on the temporary land revealed at low tide: The foreshore, only exposed for fragments of a day, untouched and perilous, is punctuated with incandescent ripples of protruding oyster shells. Tim Tokley is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher with a practice concerned with literary influence within contemporary artist filmmaking, the notion of art as a record and the development of professional research, which informs an ongoing interest in pedagogy. His current work explores the narratives of places and people contextualised by modern history and literature. Most recently, the foreshore of Mersea Island, which is found in the artist's home county of Essex. The landscape is examined using 16mm film, focusing on ecological changes and the enduring relationship between humans and oyster shells. @st_cedd