What happens between the projector and the object projected onto? They become linked by a source of light that flickers and moves, illuminating a series of still images that we translate into movement and recognize as a snatch of reality.

What happens when the characters become isolated and introspective, become stuck and repeat themselves over and over until the very film that records them becomes looped and locks them into the motion that they began?

Sophie makes site specific installations. First creating a film, she then works within a space so that place and moving image become inextricably linked. Working sculpturally with the projections, the images take on three dimensional qualities: moving over surfaces, into cracks; a blurred image on the wall comes fleetingly into focus, in a corner under the radiator, a womens shadow circles, silhouetted against the evening sky, a man digs; his garden or something more sinister? Projected very small , her work draws the viewer in. The action has no beginning or end and we are left to contemplate the figure in its never-ending task, engrossed in its occupation, becoming an extended moment without end.

 

Anna Andreyevna 2001
table, chair, linen tent, grass, projector, film and string