Sophie Collier

Glitch Maternal is a gallery-based moving image work born from a series of drawings, notes and sculptural objects. The work separates into five identifiably separate ‘scenes’, although any sense of definite narrative or decipherable code is fleeting: just as representational threads seem likely to be woven, so they are unravelled by abstracted backgrounds or seemingly detached soundscapes.

The result is a tense work that hovers somewhat nervously between the clear and the unclear. Code appears decipherable in the form of seemingly meaningful and symbolic props and gestures, yet these hooks are given no time to settle in the water: they are dangled but not easily grasped.

Mischief, danger, magic, destiny, and a sense of divination all inspire Glitch Maternal, although these bumpy notes are underpinned by more protective, calm, repetitive and ordered forces. There are clear attempts at navigation through the work, as well as an interest in the changing of object or element from one state to another, and a sense of the passing on of information from one generation to another.