In this exhibition, the artists take performative possession of their confused adolescent selves, reviving dormant coping mechanisms to survive their thirties. Responding to the individual and collective motivations behind the consumption of horror games and movies, the Their sculptural sound and video installation delve into a disorienting wilderness of dramatic rehearsals driven by catastrophic thinking.
Everything sways, the bushes smile, the shadows writhe and the walls breathe. Only relics remain. Using deliberate aimlessness executed with military precision, they encounter and test the terrifying and amusing indifference of nature, lurking and idling among the overgrown ruins whose purposes have transformed. All while haunting their way along a wandering hero's journey.
Sarah Cockings and Harriet Fleuriot work collaboratively on performance, video, sound and sculpture.
Their first project together was the short film PLASMA VISTA (2016). It was selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries in 2017 which was hosted at Block 336 and the BALTIC Center for Contemporary Art. The piece won Tendeflix in 2016, and has been screened internationally including WRO Bienale, Aesthetica, Underwire, BFI Flare, Eindhoven Film Festival, ECU, London Short Film Festival and TBCTV at Somerset House. Plasma Vista is currently touring with Videoclub.
They created LENDABLE MENDABLE VENDABLE in 2018, an interactive installation in which they performed game systems to investigate the agency of material objects and anxious, desire-based work. LMV took place at Art Night (London, UK) and Eindhoven Film Festival (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) in 2018 and will culminate in a short film due to be completed in 2019/20.
The couple will take part in Art Night 2019 with a new work Vast Forward, which opens on June 22, 2019.
