"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."
Newspaper (for bathers, weekend) (2018)
Ngā ataata nā Sonya LaceyOther 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
Pillows (installation documentation) (2020)
A moving image triptych, comprised of footage that Lacey gathered while travelling through South-East Asia.
He tuhinga roa anōRelated essay
Sonya Lacey: Noise as Method
Sonya Lacey: Noise as Method
EssayTuhinga roa
In this in-depth essay, Hamish Win considers the art of Sonya Lacey, whose work, he argues, uses "noise"—information’s excess or supplemental qualities—as a productive method through which to convey meaning.