video installation in Glogauair, Berlin, 2024:
video installation in Vorfluter gallery, Berlin, 2024:
What if Emily Dickinson made a western?
The lonesome cowboys of the great outdoors have nothing on her, the lonely woman willingly trapped in her bedroom. In the great indoors, the recluse imagines the most epic western ever. The sweaty jacked horsemen tell their story by the campfire, under the open sky, full of stars; well, she tells her story down the well, mysterious pit where her sadness thrives. The so-called virgin lands burst with wildlife; well, the truly virgin lady rides her wild thoughts through nights and days in a house that kills.
Feel the push of the door reluctant to letting visitors in, hear the sad queens playlist, feel the trickle of the block of frozen rosewater melting down, look for the invisible writings on the wall, see the fragmented text rolling down the ceiling, get a glimpse of the shy TV hiding in the corner, see the infrared vision of that inside wildlife.
These are all projections and reflections from a woman trapped in her own room, looking for her inner West. These are fragmented fantasies, like a big old fire thrown down the deepest well.
Video installation
GlogauAIR, Berlin
camera by Robin O’Shea, Xava Mikosch, Elisa Pardo Puch
make up by Toyah Robinson
20 minutes video
2024
Pauline Maure 