HD Video, 9mins3secs
“Mostly you are idle and constantly glowing, agitating an action from the periphery of simultaneous thoughts. I have this feeling you and I are becoming flattened, or rather we have been becoming flattened continually for quite some time. Held, grasped and touched; posed at an angle and always in proximity to both our bodies.Bending here, adjusting there and increasingly, flat. As you multiplied, I adjusted myself to the terms by which to find you. Learning the poses, the language; mediating myself for all your eyes. Becoming increasingly extreme, and ever more flexible to find you. Interact-able, search-able, locate-able.”
Pressed Against, As Hands On Glass is a video work that reflects on the relationship between users and their desires whilst utilising dating and hooking-up apps. The narrative of the piece focuses on the isolationist setting of app use and considers how users increasingly act out themselves as image in these interactions.
Presented as part of the Underpinnings programme at The Anatomy Rooms, Aberdeen, March 2018