SPE - PERFORMANCE AND EXHIBITION SPACE

16 SEPTEMBER 2017 - 15 OCTOBER 2017

Clara Boulard
Art for the Environment Residency Programme

VIDEO INSTALLATION

IN COLLABORATION WITH UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS LONDON

Clara Boulard (born Paris, 1993, lives and works in London) is currently a post-graduate student in Moving Image at Central Saint Martins at the University of the Arts in London. The artist has been awarded a residency at the Associazione Culturale Dello Scompiglio thanks to the multidisciplinary approach to her research and a project in which she hopes to develop a possible sustainable relationship between humanity and the planet.

Her work explores how our perception and individual cultural context makes us more aware of our surroundings to better understand the importance of the space in which we live. As the formal conclusion of the residency at Scompiglio from 4 to 18 September, a video installation will be presented on the 16 September.The work, developed in the Performance Space at Scompiglio, examines, through two looped videos, the capability of imagination connected to the darkness that envelops us when the night comes and we find ourselves in the middle of nature or in a context that is not usual for us.

A work on the borders that divide the internal and the external, security and possibility, reality and imagination when confronted with something we cannot control, our primordial fears of the dark and our need for a place to feel safe. At the same time the work casts itself as an activator di consciousness, as a reflection on the manipulation that our steps and actions can accomplish in a daily context without a real and true awareness.