In her series ‘Desire Lines’ Isabelle Vigier has documented composer Kate Moore’s artistic research entitled “A Beautiful Path Plein Air Composing.” The photographer accompanies Kate Moore throughout a year long project, where the composer is seeking a dialogue with ever changing surroundings through long distance walking. The photographic series unveils how persistence was at the heart of this walk, and a hidden key for the artist to come close to her own, inner landscapes, through embracing the realities of the contemporary landscape.
“A Beautiful Path: Plein Air Composing is a research project by composer Kate Moore about composing in the landscape. Here the land is both the atelier of the composer and the stage upon which the composer performs. Over a period of 12 months, Kate is walking from Oss in the Netherlands, all the way to Skellig Michael, Ireland, captured through the lens of visual artist and photographer Isabelle Vigier who joins Kate along the journey. During this long-distance walk, Kate captures the environments and experiences using voice and instruments associated with traveling musicians, including the lyre, lute, vielle and violin.”
It was also shown as a preview at the PleinTheater in Amsterdam in parallel to Kate Moore’s summer residency in August 2024.
The project is made with financial support by AFK Amsterdam Fond voord de Kunst, and was made thanks to the kind support of Gaudeamus, Movement Exposed Gallery Space, Utrecht, Plein Theater, Amsterdam, NPO Radio4 Vrije Geluiden.
Limited edition ‘cahier’ for the album Cork by Maguire/LaBerge on Splendor Records. The images were taken in the city of Cork. Surfaces, objects and places form a visual of the city that accompanies the spirit of the music. The book comes with a private download code of the album. Can be purchased here.
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.
