Primitive Tales
Atiéna R. Kilfa

30 September - 11 November 2023
Thursday - Saturday, 12.00-6.00pm

If the primitive finds itself halted and repressed by violent categorisation, it also outgrows the experience of negation, of being stopped, of feeling out of place: stopping, doesn’t end there. It grows into a form of orientation, a narrative axis, from which the world unfolds. From there, disorientating how things are arranged from within, it reveals how familiar spaces can seem strange.

I want to invoke Bresson’s ejaculatory force of the eye, in continuing the trajectory of interrupted gestures that could not reach their final destinations, but which, in their ineffable expressions of wish or intention, give us a sense of orientation towards the future.

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132 Tyers Street
London SE11 5HS
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Photography: Mark Blower

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Atiéna R. Kilfa
Primitive Tales 2023
Two-channel 4k video (colour, sound)
Continuous loop

Credits:
Models: Maria Hengge and Robbie Jr, Alison Kabuya and Barbara Klinger
Camera Operator: Dudu Quintanilha
First Assistant Camera: Shaun Motsi, Eva George Richardson McCrea
Production Assistant: Camille Clair
Hair and Makeup: Alyssa Lewandoski
Foley Sound Design: Julian Krause

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