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Sonia BoyceWe move in her way – Staging – Esse

Sonia Boyce
We move in her way

Emily LaBarge
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, U.K., February 1 — April 16, 2017
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Sonia Boyce We move in her way, 2017.
Photos : George Torode
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, U.K., February 1 — April 16, 2017

Within two rooms — the walls of which have been papered floor to ceiling with dark, enigmatic, kaleidoscopic images of bodies and limbs and crimson-coloured fabrics — a group of women move together in a different room. Five women, to be precise, in one room, here in these two rooms, across seven screens, each a different vantage point, playback sequence, angle, lighting, focus, close-up, pull-back. Moving images are inverted and placed next to each other so that they seem to reflect and telescope, to accordion through space like the images densely packed across the surrounding walls.

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