Month: January 2022

Lisa is composed of iPhone recordings and ripped YouTube videos, layered with onscreen titles and voice-overs to explore questions of artistic agency. Shifting between the narrative of soap opera character Lisa Shaw, go-pro footage of wild animals, and reflections on my own experience of typing-induced numb fingers, the work considers the romantic idea of the artist’s mark.

Marbles is a series of short videos shown on smartphones and tablets, featuring close-up views of polished stone surfaces overlaid with changing text. The texts are drawn from, among other sources, a newspaper article describing an anti-fascist march, an essay on male painters by novelist Rachel Cusk and an advertising campaign for mascara. The work explores material value and power, tracing connections between the historical prestige of marble, the allure of screens, and the authority of (sub)titles in the moving image.