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Handle with Care

By Chloe Austin – View Artist’s Profile
Handle With Care, a performative video piece accompanied with a sound piece by Bartosz. In this work, I try to capture the feeling of confinement. The liquid, representing the body – stuck in a void of space. The body in liquid expansion, black in ink and shadows locked. The liquid, measureless and infinitely uncontainable.
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Artist

Chloe Austin

Year

2020

Material

Video

Description

Handle With Care, a performative video piece accompanied with a sound piece by Bartosz. In this work, I try to capture the feeling of confinement. The liquid, representing the body – stuck in a void of space. The body in liquid expansion, black in ink and shadows locked. The liquid, measureless and infinitely uncontainable.

 

Using a broken frame, representing β€˜four walls’ of confinement, the container – desiring to hold, the liquid – desiring to drift. Watching the liquid flow formlessly, settling only briefly -it is both relaxed and aggressive. It flows, it bubbles. It is chaos, it is calm.

 

Techniques of repetition and sharp-cuts adds to the disruption of the materials being handled. The title derives from the action of subtle movement, the gentle caress of the liquid from the hands. The work incorporates high contrast within both the visual imagery and materials. I aim to experiment with the aggressive relationship between presence and absence. Neither here nor there, handle with care.

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