Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement 2018 — The Sound of Screens Imploding — Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève

Womb Life

Womb Life choreographs the space as a film set, inhabited by a crew who have retreated after months of shooting. They gave birth to the image in the form of a film and remain non-human forms still working on various stages of a typical cinema production. However, their activities hide within the shells of strange characters: the spy is the sound maker and camera; the florist is the editor; the nomad is the location scout; the source ensures hydration, pace, and breath; the sun spider, the lighting as well as the exposure, the development of the actual photographic image… Henderson will approach the floor as though it were a continuous connected body and transform it into a system which is both kinetic and still.

Tamara Henderson’s works often suggest an escape from conscious experience and a feeling of being orchestrated by spectral forces. Her process of tapping into dreams connects to Surrealist traditions; she carefully records what she experiences under various altered or unconscious states such as sleep or hypnosis, then translates the sketches, notes, and recordings into films, sculptures, or other works.