Geraldine Clare Snell
2021Dancing
Geraldine Clare Snell
Geraldine Snell’s Dancing is a home video playfully capturing a moment of sublime sunlight shining onto a flaking living room wall. One fixed shot documents the shadows of a door being abruptly opened, the artist’s hand dancing in the stream of the sunlight cast upon the wall, her figure moving across the frame, and the door being closed again. Made at the start of the Covid-19 lockdown in the UK, it became the first in a series of works titled Light & Love, focused on careful observation of immediate and ephemeral phenomena.
Dancing
light love
Geraldine Clare Snell
A live intervention into the image sphere encouraging the observation and celebration of ambient light. Featuring soft instructions and vocal incantations in response to commonplace light sources, this performance promotes active attention to and reflexive engagement with both digital and actual environments.
light love
Still Life Moving
Geraldine Clare Snell
Still Life Moving, shot in April 2020, shows the artist and her housemate marvelling at the beautiful colours that sunlight casts through various coloured drinking glasses on their kitchen counter. This work - like Geraldine Snell's moving image work Dancing, exhibited at S1 Artspace - is from the series Light & Love. These works were originally shared on social media to provide a soft, haptic counterpoint to the quick, slick imagery we are subjected to in digital space, in unconditional eternal testimony to the sublimely mundane.
Still Life Moving