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Tuesday, July 05, 2011

Yamamoto's Waves





"A silk dress with a bamboo crinoline hangs upside down over a lake in the center of a former power station. The dress' reflection, distorted by a boat's oar, depicts something ethereal, something "other,” something that though once a wedding dress, here becomes genderless. Those who experience Yohji Making Waves at the Wapping Project in London, part of a London-wide commemoration of Yamamoto’s 30 years in Europe, are invariably humbled. As one of the boat rowers around the makeshift lake tell us in this piece, the scene brings to mind the River Styx. This shrine-like space was engendered with further meaning when it opened as the 9.0 magnitude earthquake hit the coast off of Japan in late March. Sofia Saldanha communicates this added immediateness with this piece, pairing reflections from the oarsmen and the director of the Wapping project to affecting ambient noise." Sukey Bernard, The [Un]Observed

Produced by Sofia Saldanha



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Sunday, November 14, 2010

The Sleeping Fool

Cecil Collins

The Sleeping Fool 1943

Art museum security guards spend their days in uniform, speaking quietly or not at all, surrounded by works of irreplaceable art.

It may look easy, but the job requires a stressful degree of responsibility, poise, and silence. Some guards may begin to feel trapped inside their own thoughts, or even inside a painting. The Sleeping Fool presents the stories, dreams and thoughts of those who work behind the walls of an art gallery.

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For the documentary The Sleeping Fool, Sofia Saldanha won the Best New Artist Award in the 2010 Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition.The story was produced in 2009 for Goldsmiths College, Master of Arts degree.


Produced by Sofia Saldanha