Holding Shards
By
Holly Slingsby
2024
- Film and Video
- Health & Wellness
- Spiritual & Philosophical
- Haptic
- Embodiment
- Loss
- Church
- Stained Glass
- Iconoclasm
- Regrowth
- Costume
- Performance For Video
- Recovery
Dimensions
9 minutes 41 seconds
Holding Shards is a performance-to-camera video work exploring iconoclasm, loss, and the hope of transformation. The protagonist is a smashed stained-glass saint, who performs gestures of tenderness, lament and wonder. Filmed on location primarily in Wales, the work takes the viewer into places of ritual and regrowth.
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