Bodies of Water
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| Creator | Clara Franke |
| Year | 2024 |
| Bio | Clara Franke (1998, Hamburg), multidisciplinary artist/designer shaped a practice moving swiftly between photography, filmmaking, ceramics and costume design.
The intimate, calming world she builds evolves around topics of community/collaboration, the body, (spiritual) eco-feminism, mysticality, and contemplation of consumerism. |
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The ritualistic film, and ceramics installation Bodies of Water contemplates humans disconnect to, and exploitation of the environment.
Super 8 shots of an imaginary ritual, staged in a quarry lake (a lake formed by past mining of clay), are juxtaposed with images of still active clay mines. Critically interrogating the uncanny beauty of the outwardly recovered landscape, Clara Franke created ceramic bird whistles that are used as a form of communication with nature as a more-than-human entity; honoring, apologizing.
An altar, accompanying the single channel film, invites to partake in a nature-honoring ritual, by interacting with ceramic instruments.
(Single-channel video, 5 min, interactive altar from ceramic instruments)