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. |