(I gave my love a cherry that had no stone)

Content: Holding in her mind Dorothea Tanning’s painting Some Roses and their Phantoms (1952) and its sickening presentation of objects as between states of being, Wardill made a film that also hovers between definitions. The architecture of the Gulbenkian auditorium in Lisbon, its colors and sense of being lost in time accompany us through a loop where a man wanders the building at night, followed by something that is not human. Through the care and paranoia with which she approaches the digital image, the artist investigates the past’s haunting of the present and the remnants of textures longing to be touched. Wardill’s work takes an interest in the appropriation of models to express ideas and the way in which fixed scenarios become exemplary. She explores the opacity of communication to deconstruct the way in which materials or the implication of the material are used to elucidate ideas.

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Runtime:

9 minutes

Year:

2016

Directors:

Emily Wardill

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Production companies:

Stenar Projects,

Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève

Actors:

Dancer

Crews:

Director

Producer

Drone Operator

Best Boy Grip

Location Coordinator