"Sonya Lacey’s video installation Weekend (2018) imagines the St Bride Foundation swimming pool as a place for workers in the London newspaper printing industry to relax and socialise. To create this work Lacey has washed sheets of newspaper until the content becomes abstract, floating forms, that are then reconfigured into film. This process of translation and mediation follows her ongoing interest in the fluidity of language and information systems."
Weekend (2018)
Other works by Sonya Lacey
Sonya Lacey
Newspaper for Vignelli (2010)
A film-based work emphasising the gesture involved in seeking information and the transmission of ideas.
Sonya Lacey
Newspaper (for bathers, weekend) (2018)
The second of two videos included in exhibition Weekend installed at The Dowse Art Museum, 2018.
Sonya Lacey
Pillows (installation documentation) (2020)
A moving image triptych, comprised of footage that Lacey gathered while travelling through South-East Asia.
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Sonya Lacey: Noise as Method
Sonya Lacey: Noise as Method
Essay
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Cinematic Absorption in Sam Rountree Williams’ Recent Paintings
Cinematic Absorption in Sam Rountree Williams’ Recent Paintings
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