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such a dying fall, 2025
"How do we hold an image steady when the act of remembering is an act itself in motion?
A silent looping video finds lilyillo at her most economical. A single linen sheet flutters across a forested stage, its movement choreographed as if by an unseen breeze. Over several hypnotic seconds the cloth gathers anthropomorphic grace, at one moment it pirouettes like a vaudeville mime, the next it folds in on itself, collapsing with perhaps what Shakespeare referred to as a ‘dying fall’. Each cycle re-presents the same action, inviting viewers to study the micro-variations in fold and shadow. The sheet becomes a surrogate body, part mime, part self-portrait, enacting the pressure of memories that replay themselves until meaning collapses under their own insistence… every ripple seems sewn rather than simulated."
- @GaryEdwardBlum
"How do we hold an image steady when the act of remembering is an act itself in motion?
A silent looping video finds lilyillo at her most economical. A single linen sheet flutters across a forested stage, its movement choreographed as if by an unseen breeze. Over several hypnotic seconds the cloth gathers anthropomorphic grace, at one moment it pirouettes like a vaudeville mime, the next it folds in on itself, collapsing with perhaps what Shakespeare referred to as a ‘dying fall’. Each cycle re-presents the same action, inviting viewers to study the micro-variations in fold and shadow. The sheet becomes a surrogate body, part mime, part self-portrait, enacting the pressure of memories that replay themselves until meaning collapses under their own insistence… every ripple seems sewn rather than simulated."
- @GaryEdwardBlum
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