- Venue
- Motorcade/FlashParade
- Starts
- Friday, March 8, 2013
- Ends
- Sunday, March 10, 2013
- Address
- Motorcade/FlashParade BV Studios 37 Philip Street Bedminster Bristol BS3 4EA
- Location
- South West England
Motorcade/FlashParade is pleased to host the first solo show of Josephine Sowden, the recipient of Hand in Glove’s Platform commission. Josephine Sowden uses lens-based media to explore the human condition in relation to modern day consciousness. Commissioned by Hand in Glove, Sowden’s new work ‘As a Lotus Flower is Born in Water’ is an immersive two-channel video installation. Inherently performative, the work features the artist amidst the natural landscape, externalising notions of ‘nature’, ‘self’ and ‘ego’. The oppositional personas that Sowden assumes reduce experience to a series of words, distorted memories of the past and predictions of an uncertain future. These confrontational actions exaggerate and bring in to sharp focus a modern day obsession with inner streams of thought; ultimately seeking to question a separation from nature and more primal instincts and desires. Hand in Glove are a group of artists and curators who initiate and curate projects, supporting emerging artist practice in and around Bristol. The PLATFORM Commission is part of a twelve month series of projects funded by Arts Council England. University of Wales, Newport are also supporting As a Lotus Flower is Born in Water.
