A space to map an experimental six month residency in a church..an exploration into listening, relocation and slippage..to slip through the door, to slip through a crack, to slip through one’s fingers, to slip off one’s shoes..
A Barefoot Residency showing at St Johns Church, Pevensey rd, St leonards on Sea,TN38 0JX, as part of PhotoHastings..
maybe..
At one end of the church a painting is being restored, placed, and ‘illuminated’. This activity pushes me further down through the vaulted arches, to a new place, and I view the space from a different doorway. And so preparation begins for three video pieces denoting the following:
skin/air/movement/gesture/small acts/uncertain journeys
frequencies 1, 2 and 3
1
I have not been in this space for six weeks. It is my final month here and today I walk in circles around my own shoes. An act of separation and continuity.
2
Light spills and gathers on three of the stone columns..I start to project here..I leave a looped film playing , drawing new parameters. In the stairwell, paper tumbles..
3
Today the church has been mapped out differently., and the frequency has altered. I explore all the small lights.
Quiet positioning, repositioning, gathering.
Nicole Zaaroura is an artist working with photography, sound, moving image and installation, to explore through documented performative acts, notions of intimacy and distance, the meditative and discordant, in both public and private locations. It is a practice rooted in encounter, and an investigation into the brutal tenderness within journeys.
