Monday, 13 February 2012

Surface Tension

Surface Tension is the new multi media installation by Andrew Williams. It can be currently seen at Rufford Gallery, Rufford Abbey, Nottinghamshire, England from the 6th of February until the 20th of February 2012.



The main focus of Surface Tension  is a ten minute video loop of a young learning disabled performer wearing a wedding dress in a wood. This is not the beginning or end of a story, just the middle. It is left to you to fill in the gaps - Why is she in the woods? Why the dress, What happens next?

The TV screens use images of flowers, the woods and ideas surrounding the romance of a marriage.  Learning disabled people rarely get married, but are often engaged. Wearing a wedding dress in this context is a dream tinged with sadness. Surface Tension reflects this from one young persons’ point of view. It is not intending to give you the story, but an emotion. The narrative is up to you.  

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