Try Me
HD digital video, 5mins (2018).
Hands perform mundane and sometimes arbitrary tasks of folding clothes, shining shoes and arranging objects, as a woman’s voice tells of an encounter with a male painter in his studio. The nature of their encounter is ambiguous.
Exhibited in the Hatton Gallery as part of the Newcastle University Fine Art Degree Show (June 2018) and Unit 8, Copeland Park, London (July 2018).
An early live version of the work was performed as part of the Fine Art BA Interim show (December 2017).