Emily Wardill

Film by contemporary artist Emily Wardill.

Showing times: 10:15am, 11:45am, 1:15pm, 2:45pm

OPENING EVENT: 31st October, 6-8pm

Book a place at the opening at: emilywardill.eventbrite.co.uk 

 

When you fall into a trance is the latest in a series of Wardill’s films that share an interest in the complexities of communication and representation, the limitations of language, and the nature of imagination.

When you fall into a trance traces the relationships between Dominique, a neuroscientist and Simon her patient, a synchronized swimmer and aid worker. Simon is suffering from the loss of his proprioception, his sense of the relative position of his body parts as well as his understanding of the effort required to move them. His vision seems essential, if he cannot see his body, then the movement and control of his gestures become unmoored. As the film unfolds, Dominique’s fascination with the complexities of the mind-body relationship exemplified by Simon’s condition spins beyond her work and into her life.

Wardill’s film is equally sinister and tender. Throughout the film, actions distort, gestures fracture, and deceptions are uncovered as the tension and release of bodies and speech reveal the complexities of memory and the possibilities of imagination.

 

 

About the Artist

Emily Wardill is an artist and senior lecturer at Central St. Martins College of Art. She works largely within the medium of film and has exhibited in Portugal, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, USA, France, Switzerland, Germany, Australia, Morocco and Italy as well as all around the UK. She has been featured in The New York Times and Time Out. She says her "films deconstruct their own visual languages, in a way that is inspired by an attempt to empower the viewer, but which also emphasises the irreducible strangeness of images. The form of the work is always informed by the subject matter – taking style and a changing of styles as highly important to the subject of the work itself."

 

This work will tour to Rugby Art Gallery 11th April - 13th June 2015

In 2015 the yearly exhibition of the Rugby Collection of fine art will be selected by artist Emily Wardill. Emily will also be exhibiting her new feature-length film 'When you fall into a trance' and will build her selection of pieces from the collection using her film as a centre point.