Collected Fragments presented during the Summer Show at Movement Exposed Gallery Space, with works by Ruta Butkute, Iva Gueorguieva and Isabelle Vigier curated by Marcelle Schots, Utrecht, NL, July/August 2024
In the small broken objects arising from the mud and the dust, there is a glimpse of a patient relationship that has unfolded over long periods of time, and a habit of care for the path that has been passed from generation to generation.
I assumed that I would turn back and go home here, at the place where the path had become impassable, but somebody had repaired it. The boggy trenches had been filled with broken pottery and I recognized it, bottle-green tiles and other shards with brown, cream, navy blue patterns. The china clay crunched under my feet.
from Daisy Hildyard ‘Emergency’ Fitzcarraldo Editions 2022
Safe Piece (installation)was a special phase of the project of the same name, which started with a series of performances and was captured in a film (2019). Safe Piece was presented as an installation for the first time in Utrecht, centering on a selection of video stills by Isabelle Vigier and a soundscape made in collaboration with Andy Moor.
When her first child was seven months old choreographer Valentina Campora started a series of performances where she, the father of the child, and the baby are performing together in front of a small audience. Isabelle Vigier documented the sessions on video over four years. The film Safe Piece shows the process of evolving an improvised dance piece through time. The family develops a non verbal language that allows them to be all at once within a multitude of polarized dimensions : private and public, playing and performing, working and mothering, caring and taking risks, improvising and creating choreography.
For Safe Piece (installation) prints and sounds from the film are assembled in the gallery space, laying out the resonances of bodies through motion, play, rest, and shifting moods.
Interview conducted by Marcelle Schots (excerpt) copyright Movement Exposed Gallery Space. Prints are for sale at the gallery and online.
Three photographs for the collective project ‘Images against war’, a statement by Galerie Lichtblick, Germany. Website and itinerant exhibition, since 2003.
