Yvonne Todd

Denim Seagull (2013)

12 min 23 secSingle channel / Digital Video / Colour / Sound

“After shooting multiple clips with the first dress, all of which seemed pretty successful, I asked the model to put the denim one on. It was immediately better. The movement of the tiered denim and the bleached, painted-looking fabric seemed much more compelling. It still had the cultic feeling I was hoping to impart… The seagull sounds in my work are communicative, expressive of something. The seagull is aligned with the young woman; it could be the voice in her head, there’s a shared experience emerging.”

Yvonne Todd from an interview with Megan Dunn, 2014.

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