Hanna Bratlie responds to 'Chimera'

 

I Walk Through  

 

Projectors, stairs and lights  

I walk through  

 

 

meeting myself as a shadow 

the sheep feel it too 

being over painted  

being film

I walk through  

 

rolled out, projected, pinned to the wall  

screaming  

an altar waiting  

light on either side  

I`m standing in between  

dragged out  

made flat 

stretched out  

poked at  

heavy stones grounds the pouring red 

 

I walk through  

  

an empty wall  

a resting place  

until a scream reminds me  

that it breathes  

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A response to Nashashibi/Skaer's exhibition Chimera at Cooper Gallery, 30 September – 10 December 2022.

Hanna Valsgård Bratlie is an MFA Art and Humanities student at the University of Dundee. She completed her BA in Philsophy at the University of Oslo. Philosophical analysis and creative writing are important influences in her artistic practice which revolves around the concepts of space, intensity and experience. With a particular emphasis on the materiality of objects and their transformative aspects, she works in between the conceptual and the material. 

Images: 

Above:

Nashashibi/Skaer, Chimera, 2022. Installation view Cooper Gallery entrance.

Below:

Floor: 

Lucy Skaer, Haystacks made of Garnet, Garnets made of Hay, 2022

Bronze and pigment, pigment on brown paper

Projection:

Nashashibi/Skaer, Bear, 2021

16mm film painted with ink and transferred to HD with additional digital drawing by Regina Ohak
Single channel, colour, silent, 5 minutes

Photographs by Sally Jubb.