“In the still contemplation of winter change is brewing, feelings are gathering, air gets trapped in ice. It’s a long breath-hold, followed by spring’s sigh of relief as the sun thaws and heals.
All wakes up, first with the twitch of a timid finger, quickly dispersing into a full-on dance, sprouting, blooming, making noise. What was buried and unseen makes itself seen through an act of emerging, pushing through. Like the frogs come out of their burrows to sing and the snowdrops push through the dirt to meet the sun. Frog Silk is a humorous reflection on the coming of spring, of the cyclical nature of feelings and attitudes. It’s a childhood fantasy, an eclectic mix of remembered stories and traditions.
It’s about reaching out with your senses, touching, feeling, playing. The characters take agency over their bodies as they awake. They find freedom in exchanging substance, in being in and with their world, shaking off the dust and the heaviness, stirring up the stale waters.”
Video work, costumes and props made in collaboration with Mara Verhoogt under the artist duo “Hora”. Music by Marco Verhoogt
‘Frog Silk’ installation for ‘Visions of the Unseen’ at Art Hub Studios, London
March 2022
Exhibition text:
“Through the act of trusting in an illusion, succumbing to its pull, and breathing into it a life, this group show seeks to make visible that which may be described as a figment of the imagination, so we may experience it as real. These elusive things – phantoms, ghosts, whispers, apparitions, thoughts, memories, and the imaginary – are made sensate by each artist as they allow themselves to form a bridge between the seen and the unseen…” ✒
Rebecca Stenfors
