[dis]place

  • Claire Orme
[dis]place brought together three artists - Sophie Dixon, Mai Spring and Claire Orme.

Working across a variety of media their practices examine the broadly used notion of ‘Place’. Based in the UK and Finland the artists open a dialogue which traverses the fragile boundaries between reality and perception. Challenging the very concept of stability between ourselves and the landscape around us.
For the exhibition, I presented an ongoing project created in collaboration with musician Phil Maguire. The works allude to the history of communication, exploring the ever-unnerving conflict and collision between human and machine. After discovering the site of a short-lived 18th century optical telegraph in New Cross, our research took a darker turn into the cryptic and occult undercurrent to the advancements in communicative technology. A series of sculptures and sound, alongside a performance, oscillate the viewer into an imagined dystopia, devoid of both time and space.

I researched and secured the venue to hold the show in, and helped to prepare our proposal for the gallery. I designed the flyers and ‘aesthetic’ for our marketing material and created our mailing list.